Women, whales, and waves: Clark Takashima surfs into art success

WAHIAWA -- When he was just five-years-old, Clark Takashima created his first piece of art. Inspired by a family outing to an Oahu military base, Takashima asked his father to draw a jet for him. "He then showed me how he did it and I just kinda took off from there," remembers Takashima. "I did these drawings with all the rivets and bombs at profile, then at different angles and flight formations compete with the smoke trails." Soon progressing to sketching ahi, mahi, other fish his family caught, Takashima eventually discovered what he says became his favorite subjects: "Whales, women, and waves."

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