June 03, 2019

Get Out There and Play

June 03, 2019/ Rockin Robin

by PAH member Jack Kinkelaar

Aloha. Is anyone getting bored with pastel painting yet? Maybe it is time to go back to finger painting.

Finger paints are wet, pastels are dry. In both media you get your hands dirty. For me as a kid, finger paints led to abstraction in the sense that it was hard to be specific within that liquid medium. I liked mixing colors but I usually ended up with a muddy mess. Pastel being solid takes me toward the linear which allows me to turn abstraction into reality. I might try finger paints again. I wonder how they would work on sanded paper? I know that watercolors look marvelous on sanded paper.

I spent this morning plein air painting with Thinam Carroll over at Ke’ei in Kona. It sure is nice to go out to enjoy these special places. Entering our juried show has nothing to do with anything compared to being out painting. Get out there and play.

Plein air painting with Thinam Carrol at Ke’ei in Kona.

Pastel Artists of Hawaii

Pastel Artists of Hawaii (PAH) is an educational, public and member supported, non-profit 501(c)3 organization, established in 2001 to primarily promote awareness of soft pastel as a serious art medium, and secondarily, to develop and maintain a national society standing.