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Now that I have taken up Travel Writing with such gusto _ I think I will get to Hawaii

Had you gone to Hawaii and mastered wave-painting, perhaps you might have become involved with Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask's Hawaiian culture program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on Oahu island.

Dr. Trask set up an accurate, exciting, practical, thorough, timeless, timely curriculum on both the undergraduate and the graduate levels.

But perhaps it would have benefited -- and still would benefit, despite Dr. Trask's death July 3, 2021 -- from a permanent or a visiting professor such as you proficient in Hawaiian art and in its teaching.

I will need to read this thoroughly and give a better-informed answer than I could right now!
When I was young I wanted to go to Hawaii and learn to paint waves properly from the local folk.

The computer crashed before I could complete my comment two boxes below.

The Hawaiian-culture, Hawaiian-language Kamehameha Schools developed the Kakaako neighborhood. Kakaako developed on the beloved, traditional salt-marsh lands where ancient Hawaiians grew, traditional Hawaiians grow pili grass for thatching their homes, from the humblest to the royalest.

That's why the neighborhood is known as Kakaako (from Hawaiian kaka 'ako, "to thrash [the pili grass] for thatching [houses]").

Kakaako building and street walls let street art survive and thrive even as the whole neighborhood offers ancient and traditional arts and crafts and going-ons.

Punahou School, which President Obama attended, may be considered an equivalent of Kamehameha Schools, which activist, author, educator, poet and professor Haunani-Kay Trask attended.

huh?

Yes, that link gives a nice presentation of Kakaako (from Hawaiian kaka 'ako, "to thrash thatching" from salt marshes where pili grass, for thatching ancient and traditional houses, grew

https://ourkakaako.com/street-art/
Is this what you mean?

The "children's mural" and the "easy kids stuff" are among what most delight and inspire me -- in terms of aesthetics-appreciating since I ain't no artist -- from the street art of the Kakaako neighborhood of Honolulu on Oahu island in Hawaii state!

I do a lot of portraiture but right now I am working on a children’s mural. You would be surprised how much easier it is to opt for the easy kids stuff. But I am always drawn back to the backbreaking work of portrait.

Guided and spontaneous art both can produce creative forks.

An artistic creation sometimes goes one way, then hits an intersection involving two, two-plus interpretations.

Is it more comfortable, more organized, more productive to opt for one and not pursue the other at all or to proceed with one but preserve notes (just in case the alternative surfaces pleasingly, productively elsewhere during another creative session)?