Hawaiian Cruise Travel Painting Workshop!

Aloha Friends!  Join me for a wonderful Hawaiian Islands cruise on board The Holland America Koningsdam!  

When: January 26th - February 13th, 2027

Where: We sail to the islands round trip from San Diego, California.  

This 18 night itinerary includes the following ports; Nawiliwili, Kauai, Kahului, Maui, Kailua-Kona and Hilo on The Big Island Of Hawaii and enjoy and overnight in Honolulu, Oahu followed by a stop in Ensenada, Mexico before returning to San Diego.

To view the complete itinerary, click HERE!  

You can book the cruise cabin of your choice through our Group Cruise Consultant, Anne Sanchez with Holland America Line.  Her phone number is;

800-355-3017 ext. 28108.  You can email her at

annsanchez@hollandamerica.com

Alternatively, you can click Here to schedule a call with her to learn more about the ship, the itinerary or to reserve your cabin! 

Our group is called the Travel Painting At Sea, Group 712.

This cruise has a total of 10 sea days and I will teach daily, travel watercolor painting lessons on board from approximately 2pm-4:30pm!  We will paint together from my collection of Hawaiian travel photos.  We will go to high Tea together, twice and sketch, our tea, desserts, and sandwiches.  I will also be available to help you with other watercolor sketches you may want to do.  

1.) Meet at the Tamarind Bar where we can get to know each other and paint watercolors of our tropical drinks!  I will also have photos along for all of us if you want to paint a Hawaiian beach scene or plumeria flowers!

2.) Paint a scene of Kailua Kona Bay with a sea cove and coconut palms.

3.) Draw and paint a painting of Aloha Tower and then go to “High Tea", together which is served in the dinning room.  We can also paint our tea, desserts and sandwiches.  

4.) Paint the famous, colorful Hawaiian Triggerfish, Humuhumu nukunuku apua'a

5.) Paint Akaka Falls Waterfall from Hilo, Hawaii.

On the 5 sea days returning, we will paint the following Hawaiian-themed paintings;

1.) Paint a Big Island black sand beach with coconut palms.

2.) Draw and paint a Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle with coral.

3.) Draw and paint a Hawaiian plumeria lei or plumeria flowers, then sketch and paint our tea and desserts at "High Tea", in the dinning room. 

4.) Draw and paint a humpback whale (we will most likely see many of these from the ship, especially between Maui and Kailua Kona.

5.) Paint Secret Beach on Maui with the island of Lanai in the distance.

I will have a whole collection of reference photos of Hawaii to hand out to each of you for each of the Hawaiian travel painting scenes.  I will have more photos than the # of days we have to paint so you will have extras and the option to paint something different from the group if you wish.  

I will also be sketching and painting in watercolordaily onboard around the ship and can help you with your additional sketches or paintings as well if you'd like.  I have included additional sketching and art supplies in the supply list.

The workshop/ class fee is separate from the cruise fare and covers the daily lessons.

I will reserve a table for our group to have dinner together each evening at 7:30 in the main dinning room.  

Below is my suggested supply list.  

A block of Arches cold pressed watercolor paper in size 7"x 10"

A permanent ink pen with waterproof ink.  I will use a TWSBI Diamond 580 with an "F" nib or "Fine" nib, filled with De Atramentis Document Ink.

Staedtler-Mars Technico lead holder 780C with 2B leads (this one has a built in point sharpener)

A Staedtler-Mars White plastic eraser

A travel palette filled the following 12 colors because it’s all about the colors and this is a tropical-themed palette.

1.) Permanent lemon yellow

2.) Azo, yellow, deep

3.) Yellow Ochre

3.) Naples yellow red shade

5.) Permanent red deep

6.) Quinacridone rose

7.) Quinacridone purple bluish

8.) French Ultramarine

9.) Pthalo green

10.) Hookers green deep

11.) Transparent oxide red

12.) Neutral Tint

A travel brush, I recommend the Silverbrush Voyage brushes in sizes 6 and 8

A travel water cup.  I use the Faber-Castel Click and Go silicone foldable cup.

A Stillman and Birn sketchbook size 3 1/2" x 5" for doing on site sketches around the ship or in port!  I took mine with me everywhere around the ship and sketched my drinks, food and other things I wanted to capture.  I came home with a little book of colorful memories!

A few clear acrylic sleeves to store your finished paintings.  You can purchase these on Amazon.

A small plastic water bottle.  I have a small bottle that fits into my crossbody purse.

A small purse or tote bag to carry your travel painting supplies.