Kapu at Ohikilolo Ranch, transparent watercolor 18x24inches. Copyright 2021 Dawn Yoshimura. A new year and trying to make sense of the past year while remaining hopeful for the new. I made a promise to myself early on last year NOT to give any glory or power to COVID19 so I didnʻt write much about it,…
Christmas Season 2020
What a year! It has been a roller coaster of emotions, and flexing the flexibility string in our character and moxy. I am thankful and…
How does inspiration come to artists?
I wanted to write a post reflecting upon conversations in the past year or so with other artists. Many assume that artists are all visually…
God is the original artist
I grew up in Kane’ohe, Hawai’i where the majestic Ko’olau mountains were literally outside my door. I would wake and look at the peaks to…
Straddling Worlds
Many of you know I work in a variety of media, but watercolor is my passion. There is nothing else like it that responds so…
Shadow Artists
Shadow artists as described by Julia Cameron, author of The Artist Way, are those who are artists but won’t acknowledge it and thus, just like…
HWS Members Show 2020
The Hawai’i Watercolor Society Members Juried show opened on March 2020 and was supposed to be held at the space Arts at Marks Garage. Due…
Filling the well
Water is flow. It always finds a way forward, it can be still and collected in an eddy or a pool but it will always…
Palama Settlement goes online
COVD19 has been increasing across the world and country and now here in Hawai’i. Palama Settlement closed all its programming and we decided to pilot…
Kupuna Watercolor
Teaching besides making art myself and with others is my newfound passion. I was reluctant for many years to teach because I didn’t want to…