Thursday, January 19, 2012

Taro and Koi Painting




I had just a little time going through the Kula Botanical garden and snapped this picture of these beautiful leaves.  I believe they are taro plants from which the taro root comes from.  They really are in the colors shown:  both blue with purple and plain green leaves.   The koi fish was added in by imagination from another series of photographs of the koi pond.  Luckily a mom and a little boy had fish food so there were many poses of the koi fish to take photographs from.  Enjoy!

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

King Protea Oil Study

This is an oil study of a King Protea flower from the Kula Botanical Gardens in Kula, Maui.  These are terrific and unusual flowers, they do grow in California (some are at UC Santa Cruz in Northern California) and are South African in origin.