Highlights
Designed by DianaHansenYoung
Vintage from the 1980s
Digital download
Digital file type(s): 1 JPG
 
About this item
One of my first memories of coming to Hawaii in 1966 was the lei makers on the docks, and all over Waikiki. They sat on the pier, the sidewalk on Kalakaua Avenue, or in their little lean-tos at the airport or in Chinatown with their names overhead, their blossoms in baskets and their offerings strung out on the ground in front of them or hanging on a fence behind them.

Sweet August 1966 memory: A young sailor, in Hawaii on 5 days R&R (Rest and Recreation - remember, this was during Vietnam!), bought me a gardenia lei "just because." To this day, when I smell gardenia, I am instantly transported to Waikiki, in front of the old International Marketplace, wearing my gardenia lei. To this day, I wonder what happened to that young sailor.

You are buying a digital download of the acrylic painting "The Lei Maker." It is a large digital file and can be printed out with no loss of detail up to 16" X 20" - make it any size you want when you print, which you can do multiple times - on card stock, watercolor paper, photo paper, canvas (and frame it and hang it on your wall) or fabric transfer for t-shirts, totes, or mugs. Embellish, and you'll have a one-of-a-kind creation.

Please just reprint this for your own use -- no resale (you're on your honor).


Aloha, and enjoy. diana