Do you love coloring? I’ve got something for you! For this fast paced time in between years I’d like to send a relaxing freebie your way. Coloring is such a wonderful way to wind down, so grab your pencils and paints, print out the pages and color the stress away 🙂 Download the coloring pages …
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 …
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.
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. …
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 …
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 …
This month’s wallpaper shows Lilinoe (“fine mist), the younger sister of snow goddess Poli’ahu. It is said that she combs out Poli’ahu’s long hair every day and floats around her head like a cloud. Lilinoe resides on Puʻu ʻUlaʻula, the highest peak of Maui’s shield volcano Haleakalā. As always, you can download your wallpaper in …
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Waka is one of the lizard goddesses who was worshipped by female chiefs in Hawai’i (yes, there are others! All in all, there are supposedly as many as 4000 deities in Hawai’i). One of the mountains on the planet Venus is named after her, Waka mons. To download your free wallpaper, hop over to my …
Your free wallpaper of October shows Lea, the goddess of canoe builders (yes, there’s such a thing hehe). I used all different kinds of handmade watercolors for this piece: Stakiwicolours, 31purplefish, Pink Chicken watercolors, Cloverset watercolors, Les couleurs des VF, Le Pigmentarium. Yes I love me some good handmade paints 🙂 Click here to download …
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Your free wallpaper of September shows Nu’akea, Hawaiian goddess of milk and lactation. I used my brandnew alohawatercolors Vanilla moon set (Vanilla, King Protea, Kaona, Moonbeam) for this portrait. The lettering was done in Procreate. This wallpaper is available in 2 sizes, with and without dates, and also for your phone. Follow this dropbox link …
