“Art is magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds.” Leonora Harrington This month’s wallpaper is inspired by the #Aloha23June color palette. Look up this hashtag over on Instagram to see what this art challenge is all about 🙂 As always, you can download your wallpapers here via my dropbox.
Hiroki Morinoue is a local Big island artist who specializes in printing and woodblock carving. I participated in a class of his last month, where we experimented with monoprints. This has probably my favorite art class so far! Full of surprises, play, lots of ink and some really neat and unexpected results. During class he …
This month’s #Aloha23Palette was chosen by Jenni @secondjenletters, and contains a few of the brandnew colors from the Aomoe set (Vivianite, Kahakai and Pacific) as well as some “old” ones such as Flame tree, Avocado and Koa. Join Jenni and me over at Instagram for the limited color palette challenge. This month’s theme is wild …
“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 …
Diving into the new year with a collaboration! For your free January wallpaper, I’ve teamed up with aloha ambassador Kathryn from @kat_mccardle_art She painted the beautiful background galaxy, mainly using the Aloha watercolor Moana (Prussian blue). I added the zodiacs (capricorn and Aquarius) and the whale digitally in Procreate. The wallpaper is available in 2 …
For your free November wallpaper I used the wonderful handmade watercolors Cassis and Hortensia from my French friends Valentine and Florence (@lescouleursvf), as well as a couple of glitter paints by aloha watercolors (Seahorse, Makai, Neptune). As always, your wallpaper is available for download in different sizes (for your phone, too!) and with or without …
For this colorful background I used only 3 aloha watercolors: Mango, Orchid and Kalani. Â Cadmium yellow, chinacridone pink and deep ultramarine blue blend to beautiful purples, oranges, reds and greens. It was so fun to play around with these paints and see how they mix on the paper. As always, your wallpaper is available for …
Your free June wallpaper features Aloha and Cloverset handmade watercolors in happy and bright yellow and orange tones. I haven’t been to the beach in almost 3 months due to lockdown, so at least I can create some beachy vibes with my wallpaper 😉 As always, download is available in different sizes (for your phone, …
Your free May wallpaper features the fabulous handmade watercolors from Rebecca @silkwatercolours (“North tower”) and Amanda @whittswatercolors(“Lucky”, “Shimmer purple”). As always, download is available in different sizes (for your phone, too!) and with or without dates. Click here to download.
Your free March wallpaper features set of handmade watercolors by Ashley from @tcwpaints (XOXO, Mistle toes, Raspberry sun and Frost) I’ve always associated certain colors with March and spring in general – pink reminds me of sakura cherry blossoms and green of all the sprouting plant, flowers and leaves. Now that I live in Hawaii it’s …
