Wilderness
My new painting this week is entitled Wilderness.
This painting layers a Hawaiian map, 2 Hawaiian petroglyph drawings, encaustic (wax), green sand and olivine (I purchased on the Big Island of Hawaii), acrylic and mica on a small stretched canvas.
This painting layers a Hawaiian map, 2 Hawaiian petroglyph drawings, encaustic (wax), green sand and olivine (I purchased on the Big Island of Hawaii), acrylic and mica on a small stretched canvas.
Olivine
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!
Happy Mid-Week!
Mary
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!
Happy Mid-Week!
Mary
