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Inspirations of a Hawaii Wildlife Artist
with Patrick Ching
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 6pm
at the Molokai Public Library

 

 

MAC at the Library presents Inspirations of a Hawaii Wildlife Artist with Patrick Ching at the Molokai Public Library on Wednesday, Oct. 2 from 6-7:30 pm.

 

The public is invited to meet Hawaii Nature Artist and Author Patrick Ching. Ching who will share a slideshow presentation on his work with Hawaiian wildlife. Ching is known as Hawaii’s Nature Artist. He has spent a lifetime teaching people about nature through his art. Ching started painting at age sixteen. He received a scholarship to attend Otis/Parsons Art Institute in Los Angeles, then attended the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa where he studied printmaking, and Leeward College where he majored in ceramics. Ching volunteered for many wildlife organizations and eventually became a ranger for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Kīlauea lighthouse on Kauaʻi. He also lived for extended periods of time among sea turtles and monk seals on the remote North Western Hawaiian Islands. His photographs captured the natural environment he had grown to love, and his paintings became known for its detailed likeness to his photos.

 

In 1984, Ching wrote his first coloring books on Hawaiian animals and the success of those books launched his publishing career which includes many award-winning books including Sea Turtles of Hawaii, The Hawaiian Monk Seal, and The Story of Hina. His latest book entitled “Honu and Hina” was illustrated with the help of many children, teachers and parents. It received the Hawaii Book Publisher’s Association’s “Ka Palapala Po’okela” award for the most excellent children’s book of 2015. Ching’s business name, Naturally Hawaiian, was also the name of his first art gallery in Waimanalo and his gallery in Kauai. He now travels internationally doing art projects, painting workshops, and live painting shows at resorts and events to raise money and awareness for various wildlife organizations. “My mission in life is to help people to express their inner artist, and in doing so make the world a more beautiful place.”

 

Bring your pencil and sketchpad and learn how to draw a honu with detailed pattern on the turtle’s back.

 

This event is free to the public. MAC at the Library is brought to you by the Molokai Arts Center and Molokai Public Library.