The Final Steps
Completion of the portrait of Mary Kawena Pukui involved small additions such as the detail on her shirt, shadows on the beads around her neck....
....an earring inspired by a musical note (After all, Kawena wrote over 150 Hawaiian songs).....
..... the hibiscus' stamen and pistol with corresponding shadows.....
Mary Kawena Pukui. Hawaiian Treasure, Musician, Scholar, Writer, Teacher, Dancer, descendent from a Kahuna Pule (Priestess) in the Pele line. It has been a pleasure and an honor to spend time with Kawena and I have The Perpetual You magazine to thank for the commission and introduction to this amazing woman.
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