Our Plan is put in to action… After setting up a few poses with Mahina (Our model) we decided that that this would be the best.

Here are the latest pictures… Mr. Jay Chow and Mrs. Cheryl Aruga are helping prep the little girl with resin and fiberglass.

Now we gave her a baseline tan and we are ready to paint!

Last night after sealing the dress with resin, I sketched out a quick design on the shell of the turtle to be painted in the morning.

Ah, At last the painting begins. Seventh graders apply stamps, and careful brush strokes.

Fourth graders and second graders add their stamp of approval to the opu of the honu.

The last class of the day… Sixth grade, added a few touch ups and their own mark.

Well after all this hard work it is time to take care of that hair!!

Now that we fixed her hair do, students adorned her head with a complete lei set, Po’o, Lei Kukui, and Kupe’e.

Students prepare the little touches to complete the feel of our special honu by learning how to cast and mold sea creatures.

Well here we are almost pau. Seventh graders help third graders make their mark.

Mrs. Rosehill helps share the honu with our elementary students and brings them up to stamp on the opu of the turtle.

High School students kokua by adding details to the native plants on the back of the turtle.

Late at night, after the students have gone home, Mrs. Nahulu Kirsch finds her inner artist.

The back of the turtle has native plants from the ocean to the mountain. Each plant is unique and special. Can you identify each one?

On the opu, students used stamps to print petroglyphs of honu found around the island. Each unique to the district they are from.

The base is here for its first fitting!

We are so fortunate to have help in finishing up the base of our creation. Peter Berg of Stamp-it Concrete uses concrete in decorative ways. He has completed many driveways, sidewalks, fireplaces, walls and now a beautiful base for our turtle. This last touch really makes the piece complete and ready for display.

Delivery day!!! We got the whole crew together to kokua our honu rider set up.

Yeah!

The whole project has been one of love and inspiration. We hope you all enjoy the finished project as well as the process we have all shared together. I Mua!