Description: View of Mauna Kea and the Hilo Bay on the Big Island, Hawaii.
About Margaret Stanton's prints
Artist's Note: In this piece, painted at Liliaiwi where some nice pavilions dot the black, rugged coast, I tried to capture the entire expanse of what I saw. Often times it is easier to zoom your focus in on one interesting feature to insure a strong composition. This was taking a chance. By simplifying the foreground colors to yellow and white/ yellow, I got some contrast with all the blue. Green, being itself half blue, would not have made enough contrast. The texture in the painting becomes truly valuable in this painting. With such a huge expanse going into a rather small painting at 16 x 20 inches, multiple scumblings of paint on the canvas and hidden brushwork throughout proved to be a great tool. Also this texture, in some areas becomes tighter and smaller, giving the illusion of moving into the distance. The black lava along Puna's coast looks so dynamic with the white, crashing waves!