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A coloring book of animals that live in Hawaii, along with the Hawaiian name for each. The book has less detail and was designed for the younger, beginning artist. There are 24 line drawings, printed on high-quality white paper, and under each animal drawing is the Hawaiian name. These pages are suitable for framing, or posting on your "Refrigerator Gallery". The book has a full color cover on heavy card stock with a plastic coating.
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The illustrator, Pat Hall, has been a respected professional artist in Hawaii since 1963. Besides illustrating children's books, she exhibits regularly and has won several art awards. Her work is in many private collections throughout the Islands and the mainland. Two of her watercolors were purchased by The Hawaii State Foundation for Culture and the Arts for their permanent collection. Pat works mostly in watercolor, but she is equally at home with just about any other media. She captures the local scenery, flora and fauna with a distinctive whimsical flair and is known for her unique Hawaiian style scenes and animals.
Pat's most recent emphasis in art has been children's book illustrations. She and her husband own a publishing company, Pacific Greetings, which features fine art reproductions, greeting cards, and children's reading books and coloring books with a Hawaiian motif. The books published by Pacific Greetings are "Curious Kimo", "The Toad That Taught Flying", "Hawaiian Animals Coloring Book", "Hawaiian Animal Families Coloring Book ", "Hilton Waikoloa Village Coloring Book", "Hawaiian Horses, Donkeys and Mules Coloring Book" , and the most recent "The Kona Town Musicians." She has also illustrated three books for Press Pacifica, "Maile and the Marvelous One", "The Red Shark", and "Emily's Hawaii", and one book for Bess Press, "Musubi Man."
Pat was born and raised on Balboa Island, California. Her mother is an artist and her father was a veterinarian, and a California historian, writer and publisher. Her love for art and biology started early in her life and is now clearly reflected in most of her work. She graduated from college in 1963 with a major in art and a minor in biology. That year she also married Howard Hall and for a honeymoon they sailed their 36 ft. ketch to Hawaii. After sailing for nine months throughout the islands, they fell in love with the Big Island and accepted teaching jobs at the Hawaii Preparatory Academy in Waimea. Today, Pat divides her time between her publishing company, Pacific Greetings, her art work, a fourteen-acre farm, and numerous pets. There are three grown children and two grandchildren all living on the mainland.
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