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I'll be beginning my 2nd of 5 "larger than normal" paintings this coming week, already excited about the layout and planning of it. I always have such a challenge when the flowers are white. I will use the deep bright rich orange colour to accentuate the white flowers and the gorgeous greens of the leaves combined with the crisp Hawaiian blue skies. I see another beauty on the way!

I did a papaya tree and fruit painting back in my mid 20's when I first lived in Hawaii, so it will be really fun to do a bit of a compare/contrast with these two paintings when done, however, the simple "childlike" way of my 1st papaya tree painting will always hold a spot in my heart. It held a special place for my mum when she visited me in Hawaii back then too and she brought it home to California and had it framed beautifully. Now I have it back since she has passed and will always have it as a keepsake of when that particular tree I painted back then was right out front of my coffee shack in the middle of a macadamia nut farm on the side of the volcano. My mum stayed with me in that coffee shack for a 10 day period during the time I was wrapping up my 5 year journey I had had on the Big Isle.