Genre
Painting

Technique/Media Used
Acrylic; Brush and smear

Date Created
02/07/2019

Dimensions
36″ x 24 ” x 3/4″

About the Piece

Sun Struck leaves of trees backdrop of 17th Green, Oahu Country Club. The afternoon sun rays get behind the trees, thus illuminating leaves like gold.

About the Artist

John Okita is a retired architect in the State of Hawaii. John was educated in Hawaii and on the mainland at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri. John returned home to garner a Masters of Architecture and a Doctorate of Architecture Degrees from the University of Hawaii. Later, John was fortunate to experience the employment at Vladimir Ossipoff, FAIA and John Hara FAIA, 2 renown design legends of Hawaii. John’s affinity to painting is a recent activity. In 2017, a client had a large wall and needed to fill it with art. John, innocently, offered to create a painting to fill the void. That offer created a stressful sequence of events to prove his worthiness and that jump started a hobby that required hours of art education and media technique research. John continues to paint and to learn.