Christmas Present for Olivia

This is a painting I did for my niece. She asked for a painting from me and thought I'd do one of Lanikai for her.

Palm Tree Series Addition

Here's another simple but cool Palm Tree silhouette that goes along with my palm tree series, actually Coconut Trees but you get my point ;)

Happy Bay

Here's another one I did for some friends a while back. It's a secret place that you'll only know where it is if you've been there. I really liked the coloring in this one. Very bright and uplifting.

Pipeline Afternoon

This painting of Pipeline captures the magical part of the day on the North Shore of O'ahu. Right at a time when the sun is getting ready to set behind Ka'ena Point. The mist from the waves reflecting with the evening sunlight creates an amazing golden glaze and turns the waves a beautiful greenish yellow. 


I painted this for a friend as a wedding gift and always love to look at it when I'm at their house. Acrylic on canvas. 

Foamy Left

This is just a painting of a nice foamy wave firing through Pipeline on O'ahu's North Shore. Pipeline (and Backdoor) is one of my favorite spots to surf on the North Shore and am always amazed a how much water is moving around even on smaller days. This scene is a wave that just followed a clean up set and left a bunch of foam in the line up. Unfortunately the picture is somewhat white washed but there is a lot of texture within the whitewater as well.


This painting is Acrylic on Canvas and is still available. Please email me if interested.


Aloha,
Benjamin

Home

After a long break from painting, I finally decided to do a piece that is a bit sentimental. This is of Kailua Bay, my home. I learned to surf out here, spent many a day playing in the ocean here since I was a little kid, I have family and friends that have passed on lay at rest out there in the deep blue. I chose to do this in black and white as it resembles a dream vs. a realistic picture. I really enjoyed doing this piece and plan to start doing more pieces now that I've been re-inspired.

Aloha,
Ben

Rincon - The Queen of the Coast

Rincon, my most favorite surf spot in California. Having grown up in Hawai'i, I was always amazed at this wave because we really didn't have anything like it on O'ahu. I remember seeing Tom Curren stylishly destroy these waves and it made me want to surf there so bad. When I finally had a chance to surf there, it was everything I expected it to be. It was like a dream.


This painting looks to capture a mellow Fall afternoon with the sun starting to pierce through the trees as it approaches the golden hour. I chose to paint it in black and white to provide a unique perspective. Acrylic on canvas. Sold.


- Benjamin

Tahiti Blue

This painting was based from a picture I saw of a spot in Tahiti that is not well known. I really liked it because of the angle and the reef showing through the water. I couldn't resist painting it because of the amazing blue scale throughout the picture.


The perspective on this is to make you feel as though you were swimming in the ocean looking into the wave before it pitches over you. The size of this painting is pretty big, 48" X 48" which makes it a little more dramatic. 


Sold.

Lanikai for Peter and Jason

Lanikai, I have many memories of playing on the beach here when I was little kid. Countless days of paddling out to the Mokulua islands (pictured) to surf and hang out with friends. The place is magical although it's becoming more and more crowded with tourism. 


I painted this scene with the idea of there being a solid East swell hitting and the sky looking like the calm before the storm. This is Acrylic on canvas, 24"X18". 


This painting is dedicated to my two long lost friends, Peter Miller and Jason Bogle who left us too early in life. The painting was sold through silent auction and the proceeds went directly to the Peter Miller Foundation. 

Palm Tree Series

I decided that I would do a few paintings that would be appealing to the masses but add my own unique flair to them. Keeping to the island style, I thought it would be cool to do a series of palm trees (color and black and white). They're very simplistic but very relaxing to look at. Just wanted to remind people of relaxing times in the islands I guess.


The black and white painting above was donated to a charity and sold through silent auction a while back. I really like this one as you can see a nice breeze moving the tree, making it alive. This is acrylic on canvas. 

This colored painting is inspired from a scene in Punalu'u on the North East side of O'ahu. It's a very quiet town. Far away from the busy Honolulu chaos. It's a very relaxing place and that's what I was looking to capture in this painting. Acrylic on Canvas. Still available.


I have several other palm tree paintings that I will be adding here soon.


Aloha, 
Benjamin

Outer Island Beauty

Not taken after any place in particular this painting reminds me of a secluded outer island beach with no one around for miles. Just the place to unwind and forget about the world. The good news is Hawai'i has many secret little beaches like this.


Acrylic on a big 3' X 5' Canvas. Sold.

Abstract Black and White's

Here are just some abstract black and white paintings I did. Just adding different lighting and wave perspectives to keep it interesting.

Aloha,
Benjamin

Teahupo'o

This painting was an idea I had of making the scene almost as if it were a fish eye photo. The idea was to give you a wide spread area in a small space and make the picture nice and open. I also wanted to demonstrate the shear power a wave like Teahupo'o offers.

The painting is Acrylic and available.

Aloha,
Benjamin

Secret Cove

Here's another painting that was just from the imagination. There are several spots on the outer islands of Hawai'i that resemble this set up. You just have to know how to get there.

In this painting, I really tried to play with how the light would be hitting everything differently. Acrylic on canvas.

Deep Blue Reef

I did this painting with the idea of creating a vantage point from paddling out into a big open reef pass so common in the South Pacific. I wanted to really add a different element to the painting by adding a bit of an abstract sky of blended green's. Although the painting appears to be somewhat simplistic, it was a very time consuming process with the sky and foreground. 


Acrylic on canvas. Sold.


Aloha!