This painting was created from a photograph of the Kailua-Kona  Village. It's a great scene, but there's a lot there, and too much  busyness in a painting is something that I try to avoid. The  challenge here was to use all that busyness and detail of the palm  trees and the foreground kayaks to point to the center of interest.  Next, I quieted the details in the water and the distant village to  provide contrast. Now, that quiet area is a resting place for the  viewers eye around and beyond the center of interest.