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Artmail 147g

August 24, 2005

Artmail 147's: a, b, c, d , e, f, g, h, i

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Aloha all...

Just so you know, I do get out of 15B. In the afternoons between about 4:00 and 5:00 I take my one block walk to Kekaha Beach to play in the surf. I get so far away from what I was doing in doors and relax.The clouds are always fun to notice. Lucky I live Kaua'i.

Here's what it looks like:

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My one block walk to the beach.

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...........................................................................................A family has been camping on the beach down there.

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The pathway is straight ahead..

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It's the 25th, now, and I'm still going through the next storage box after the palm frond faces box. I took a photo after I opened the box. There's a lot of Boomerang Art's art history in there and other people's art, too. Here's the first view:

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First, look at that green thing. That's a painted piece of Hanapepe River driftwood that I collected then painted while I was living on Magic Island or at "The River Mouth." There's an interesting story to be told about Magic Island, which is no longer an island, but was added to private property. Anyway, it was back in 1990 when I was painting driftwood...making whatever as it would show up in the wood. I had already set aside the little box containing driftwood without opening it to do at a later time. Today, I opened that box to take the following photo, then closed the box until later:

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..........................................................................................................I signed and dated the finished ones.

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I bet you've never seen anything like it.

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Back to the box. I did some experimenting with stencils so that I could stencil "art" onto boomerangs. I also stenciled and painted onto foamcore.

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I got bored painting copies of the same thing.

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Doing silhouettes was quicker...

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While I was in the process of painting this one, a local friend, Joe S, whom I met at Kolo's camp on Magic Island,...

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Eddie C, Lincoln Y, Joe S, and Boomerang A.

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...wanted me to paint a larger one like the one above. He offered me a price that I couldn't refuse. So, I painted one. When I delivered it, he said he wanted another one except the "daytime version" for the same price. A Kaua'i Akialoha was last seen in 1974 and then thought extinct. I think since then, Akialohas have been seen. Those were the last two of stenciled Akialohas I did on foamcore. In a year or so, Joe was offered two or three times what he paid for them, but he declined. Joe said that he would keep them as collectors items...they would be worth much more, in time. Here's a photo of the only photo then taken of them..."for the record:"

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Kaua'i Akialohas in Alakai Swamp.

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Near the bottom of the box, I found another kind of stencil. Ron G is a fisherman and has a boat named Kai Malia which means "calm sea." (I have photo prints in the photos box that I will look through at a later date). When I take these different pieces out of the box I have to clean them as some have gotten pretty dirty after a lot of years. Here's before and after cleaning photos of the stencil I made in order to paint the name the same on both sides of the boat:

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I don't have a photo of Kai Malia handy.

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An Akule study I painted for Daniel J's boat.

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Back to the top of the box. See that cardboard that has a pretty smooth roll to it. That was my boomerang sign when I was flying boomerangs at Kapiolani Park in Waikiki back in 1986. It's special. I made it using a technique I learned in the 3rd grade when we were studying American Indians. Our project was to make "buckskin" clothes out of paper shopping bags. Mrs. Tuttle demonstrated how little parts of the bag could be rubbed together until it becomes flexible like cloth. When we completed the whole flattened out bag that way, we had a flexible piece of "buckskin" to use in making our clothing.

When I was marketing my Aloha Rangs on O'ahu, I rented a room in an apartment for the four months. I rode the bus to Kapiolani Park and could not carry too much. Cardboard is not flexible and does not lend itself to being folded and unfolded. So, as I had the time, I started "buckskinizing" the piece of cardboard I was going to use as a sign to lean against a palm tree and put some boomerangs on it as a display. Check it out:

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