This month’s theme for our @alohakiwichallenge over on Instagram is birds. We feature two birds from Hawai’i (Palila, I’iwi), and two from New Zealand (Kea, Kereru). For those of you who love birds and enjoy painting, these coloring pages might be just the right thing! You can download all four pages as jpg image files […]
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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
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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
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I’ve teamed up again with Akshaya @tempest.in.a.teacup for this ocean themed wallpaper. She painted the gorgeous background in teal and blue colors, and I added the mano (shark) and Cancer & Leo zodiac symbols with Procreate. As always, you can download the wallpaper in two different sizes from my dropbox. There’s also a phone version.
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Just look at this galaxy … wow! Julia @thepaintboxletters really nailed it with ALL the rainbow colors and creating this stunning piece. Julia used both @alohawatercolors and @stakiwicolours, so you have all the Alohakiwi vibes in here as well 🙂 And of course it’s pride month!! Julia, Stacey and I would like to dedicate this wallpaper to
Rainbow wallpaper June 2021 Read More »
For all of you who participate in the @alohakiwichallenge and have never tried lettering before, I’ve made a few practice sheets with the quotes of this month (download here as a ZIP file via my dropbox). You can print them out, trace them, take them as inspiration, copy them, whatever helps you to get into
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Making your own mini zine is simple and fun! For this Aloha watercolor zine I used a 9″x12″ (22.75×30.5 cm) 108lb (160gsm) mixed media paper by Fabriano. I folded it in half, then in half again, and one more time to create 8 rectangle partitions. Then unfolded it again and made a cut in the
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For this month’s freebie wallpaper, I pulled out my beloved matte paints by @lescouleursvf and the beautiful metallic shimmer paints by @31purplefish and added the Zodiac signs Taurus & Gemini, as well as the goose digitally in Procreate. The nēnē goose, also known as Hawaiian goose is the rarest goose species in the world and native to Hawai’i.
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Have you ever heard of the only native Hawaiian land mammal? It’s the ‘ŌPE‘APE‘A, also known as the Hawaiian hoary bat. They don’t live in caves but rather stay in the foliage of trees. I’ve seen a few fly around the house here at dusk. ‘Ōpe‘ape‘a in Hawaiian means “half-leaf” and refers to the resemblance
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For your free March wallpaper I’ve teamed up with Mrudula from @quillsncolors She painted the gorgeously dreamy background galaxy in peach, pink and blue. I just love it in combo with the Palila (Hawaiian honeycreeper bird). Thank you Mrudula! I added the zodiacs (Pisces and Aries) and the bird digitally in Procreate. The wallpaper is
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