 The light rays are taking some time to get them straight and to the correct colors. I'm also going to tighten up the green sharks teeth and then re-outline them in black again.
 I finally got a ladder tall enough to work on the top part of the mural. I start on the sun and light rays
 Day 12 - I'm finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I changed 6 things from the previous picture. First person to tell me at least 4 of them wins a free signed print. Remember the children books in the dentist office? Get goin'!
 I finally figured out what to do with the bottom. I put dark blue with waves just above "Motor Sports" and outlined it with white.
 I fixed the rest of the fish and made the "Motor Sports" block letters. Although unnoticeable, I also did gray bubbles on top of the blue bubbles.
 I finished filling in the "Motorsports".
 I re-outlined the "Ohana Trails" to make it more visible and am not sure if I'm going to do more to it later. I started the "Motorsports" in camoflauge colors.
 I decided to change the shark's teeth to fish and the letters to all gray and black.
 I tightened the letters and have most of the blue water filled in. I think I'm going to change the lettering into a chrome look as an homage to the Oakland Raiders.
 At this point I'm still feeling it out. I don't know exactly where I'm going with this but hopefully I find some cohesiveness with this.
 Instead of using spray paint, I'm actually painting it by hand. It's more work but less mess.
 I was asked to do a mural in a shop garage wall at Ohana Trails Motorsports
 This Monstera leaf back splash for the kitchen area was done to add color and interest in this warm and natural setting.
 I was asked to do a turtle above the sliding door of a home. I put 2 clownfish escorting the gently descending turtle.
 With fellow artist Janet Stewart and friend.
 With the new owners of the published original "Falling for Love" 36x54.
 The boys room wall and ceiling.
 This is the left side with a window to the right of the turtle which is the middle of the room. The right side is below.
 This is the boys room for my friend Tanya. She wanted an ocean theme with stars and planets on the ceiling. I hate painting ceilings but I like making people happy so the boys are getting a starry sky with a planet or two.
 The beginnings of Sairah's room. That's Bambi in the bottom.
 Sairah's Wunderland is the theme to this room. The tree house is taken from Winnie the Pooh and the white spot on the bottom right is going to be Tinkerbell.
 One of the fairies found in the movie "Tinkerbell".
 Tinkerbell on mushroom detail.
 Tigger (close up) in baby Ascher's room
 The finished Winnie the Pooh room. Baby Ascher is going to have his crib directly below the bridge where Tigger and Eeyore sit.
 Winnie the Pooh room from Rabbit to Owl.
 Roo and Kanga on opposite wall of Pooh and Rabbit.
 Close up of Owl in his tree house.
 Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck were an extra I stuck into the Winnie the Pooh room. I made them as if they were pulling the fabric of reality peeking through trying to get into the Hundred Acres Woods.
 This is the ceiling adjacent to the wall that I did below. It took a while to do and I'm glad it's finally over. Probably my last ceiling too since I did it without scaffolding and it ended up hurting my shoulder.
 Freshly painted Hawaiian Islands chain on the floor as well as the Pacific Paws Doggie Day Care logo on opposite wall.
 This is the beginning of a faux finish that I did in a dining room wall below the the window sill. It's of a relief that supposed to look like a carving of stone. I painted the entire room with a faux stone finish. I'm in the process of doing the top portion of the wall with a complimenting design.
 This is the finish product. The client wanted 2 mermaids and roses in a vase as the detail. I embellished the feather leaves and border to help create the look. They just put in the curtains the morning before I finished the wall. I'm still doing the top part above the box curtains and will post up the finished product later.
 The top design was taken from several actual designs picked by the owner. Together with the bottom faux finish and the newly hung curtains, they create a full look of carved stone.
 This is my first attempt at a Trompe l'oeil. I didn't start this piece. Another artist started and didn't finish so I was commissioned to come and finish it. Originally it had an island out in the distance but I changed it to the Amalfi coast because that's what the owners wanted it to feel like. I'm stuck at the moment doing alot of detail work and it's very slow going. This wall is actually the adjacent wall to the left of the window sill of the above pictures.
 This is the right side of the mural of above. I tried to leave as much of the original painting as I could. I didn't do the fountain or the trees on the cliffside and I touched the rock wall very little.
It took me 2 months to finish this.
 "Color of Passion" (triptych) 48" x 72" Original oil on gallery wrap canvas. This is my clients' home and how the painting was hung. The red color is very strong but it brings together the reds from around the room and makes everything come to life. Detail that cant be seen has a monarch butterfly in the middle panel and 7 red ladybugs on various leaves on all 3 panels.
It took me 1 month to finish this.
 This is my prototype of a Japanese shoji screen. I went to the Honolulu Academy of Arts and viewed a traditional Japanese shoji screen exhibit and got inspired to do #3 - 2 panel pieces with turtles. It hides my surfboard, massage table and mt. bike and makes the room more inviting and playful.
The following pictures show the process of how I paint home accents on walls. I'm also doing wall textures like marbling and sponging and faux finishes.
 This home accent was done in a boys room. This was my first puffer fish. There's another turtle on the ceiling .
 I first started this mural by doing the foreground trees and rock jetties. Then I added the further trees and then the mountain range
 After the mountains I then put in the ocean and waves. The steps are out of sync in the pictures though.
 After the water was filled in, I then worked the sky by starting on the sun and working away from it through the sky.
 I strategecally placed all the trees above where tables are under to give the feel that one was eating under the shade of a tree. The left corner trees were placed to make the tv stand part of the wall and blend into the scene.
 After the sky was put in I polished everything off with a bit of extra detail. I wanted to make sure that it had my signature style into it which is a combination of the perspective, color, detail and lighting. In order to make this piece really work I painted the land and water at a time which is during mid-day and the sky during sunset. If I painted the land and water during sunset, it would've all been in a silhouette and no detail could be seen. It took me about 8 nights of work to finish it.
 This is the adjacent wall on the left end of the first mural.
 This is the middle part of the second wall. It is in the mid-stage unlike the photo above which is finished.
 This is the end of the mural. This section has Makakilo, the KoOlaus and Diamondhead as well as the lagoons of Ko Olina. In the blank white area I put one of my signature turtles in the closest lagoon.
 I was asked to paint something on the pillars where the mural is at. They helped make the mural stand out more. If you walk around you can see a palm tree from almost any angle in the room.
 This is the pillars from another angle.
 "Home Accents is my latest thing. Here I add to the tropical theme already in the bathroom by placing a banana tree and monkey in an otherwise plain wall. I painted the monkey at a height where it might look as if the monkey were on one's shoulders if they were looking at the mirror straight up. This is my first monkey that I've painted."
Contact: Deenoze@hotmail.com
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