Waiting for Spring to arrive in Minnesota. It’s been bleak here on the tundra. No snow, endless landscape in shades of grey and brown.
![sketching my landscape on small paper samples from Legion Paper in NY](https://cocoxoxo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/coco-connolly_minnesotaMarch.jpg)
sketching my current view on small paper samples from Legion Paper in NY
Wistfully remembering my month in Hawaii, on the Big Island with Zoe. Wondering if I should work my sketches into larger paintings. I was so all over the place, people, landscape, flowers…my new friends; Ugly Pig and Gimpy Chicken. And the colors are so different than I am use to seeing.
![Churches are not this color in Minneapolis!](https://cocoxoxo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/church-in-waimea.jpg)
Churches are not this color in Minneapolis!
![north-kohala](https://cocoxoxo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/north-kohala.jpg)
I do love these fields of green. Site of ancient taro fields, North Kohala.
![watercolor portrait](https://cocoxoxo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/coco-connolly_beachSleep.jpg)
Zoe sleeping on the beach
![flowers from the Waimea farmer's market](https://cocoxoxo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/coco-connolly_hawaii-floral.jpg)
flowers from the Waimea farmer’s market
![hills of Waimea](https://cocoxoxo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/coco-connolly_hillsofWaimea.jpg)
hills of Waimea
![painting pigs and chickens](https://cocoxoxo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/coco-connolly_uglyPig-gimpyChick.jpg)
Ugly Pig and his best friend Gimpy Chicken. This 8 year old arthritic chicken flew the coup. Ran off to the pig pen where this “tamed” wild pig lives. They live together like a crabby old married couple.