Happy new year! The first wallpaper of the year matches the colors and theme of our current #Aloha23Palette challenge on Instagram: Touch the sky, in opera pink, pale blue, dark teal, Naples yellow and dusky purple. As always you can download the wallpaper here from my dropbox. There are different sizes available.
“Art is magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds.” Leonora Harrington As always, you can download your free wallpaper from my dropbox. Its available in 2 sizes and there are 2 versions for your phone, too.
“Sometimes the painting takes over and goes where it pleases.” Elizabeth Cummings Well at least for me, that’s what happens all the time: I start a painting and a few strokes in it has its own personality and starts talking back to me 😉 Sometimes we have a good conversation and sometimes I have to …
Abstract artist Louise Fletcher has been such an inspiration for me during the month of May. I participated in her free “Find your joy” class and jumped right back into some abstract paintings which I had abandoned for some time. It was so fun and so freeing to overpaint old stuff and freely create and …
Thank you for supporting my small business, for cheering me on, for sending lovely messages and happy mail. I know that making a wallpaper every month is just a small thing to give back to you but I do hope it brings you a little joy every month 🙂 Last year’s wallpapers were a combo …
For the last wallpaper of this year my dear friend Kathryn @kat_mccardle_art has painted this gorgeous wallpaper. Isn’t it beautiful? As always, I’ve added this month’s zodiacs (Sagittarius, Capricorn) and our featured animal of the month: Jackson chameleon. They are both stunning, quirky and funny looking at the same time, don’t you think? You can …
When you realize at the end of the month that you forgot to post the wallpaper … here it is! As always, download here via my dropbox.
The pueo is the only endemic owl in Hawai’i, and is also known as the Hawaiian short-eared owl. Rather than focusing on the short ears I’d like to point out the beautiful eyes this owl has, and the shading around then that looks like mascara gone wild 🙂 Even though Halloween will very likely be …
For this beautiful and vibrant wallpaper I’ve teamed up again with Mrdula @quillsncolors again! She painted the gorgeous background in Prussian blue and neon pink colors, and I added the gecko and virgo and libra zodiac symbols with Procreate. As always, you can download the wallpaper in two different sizes from my dropbox. There are …
Hawai’is state fish, the Humuhumunukunukuapua’a, also known as Humu or Picasso triggerfish is one of the most fun language pronouncing exercises that I know. The easiest way to learn this very long Hawaiian word is to dissect it into the following parts: humu, nuku, apu. Humu – humu – nuku – nuku. Then you only …
