This painting layers a Hawaiian map, encaustic (wax), green sand and olivine (I purchased on the Big Island of Hawaii), and acrylic on a small stretched canvas.
For those of you new to my blog and work, the green sand and olivine is from Green Sand Beach – one of only two green sand beaches in the United States. (The other is in Guam.) The beach gets its distinctive coloring from olivine found in the enclosing cinder cone.
Green Sand Beach is located near South Point, the southernmost point on the Big Island of Hawaii and of the 50 United States. Because I didn’t have a 4 Wheel Drive, it was a 2 ¼ mile hike one-way to the Green Sand Beach…but worth every step!
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Happy Mid-Week!
Mary