Wallpaper November – loose Hawaiian kapa pattern
A loose interpretation of a Hawaiian kapa pattern, with a quote by Wassily Kandinsky. Aloha watercolors Cocoa (burnt umber) and Aubergine. Download here from my dropbox.
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Golden autumn wallpaper October 2023
Look at what you can create with just 3 primary colors! Okay well, I threw in some metallic gold as well 🙂 One of the things I love most about autumn is the light. In the evening, when the light hits the lanai and turns everything into gold. You may think that here in Hawaii …
Painting is my life: Wallpaper September 2023
“The wonderful thing about being an artist is that there is no end to creative expression. Painting is my life; my life is painting.” LoĂŻs Mailou Jones Download wallpaper here via my dropbox: wallpaper September 2023
Wallpaper August 2023
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” Pablo Picasso Download here via my dropbox: Wallpaper August 2023
Wallpaper July 2023
Painting from nature is not copying the object, it’s realising one’s sensations. ― Paul Cezanne Download here via my dropbox: Wallpaper July 2023
Art is magic – Wallpaper June 2023
“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.
All the comfort foods – Wallpaper May 2023
Of this list of comfort foods, which one is your favorite? For me, it’s a tie between pasta and pretzels. I could eat pasta every day. I could also eat Bavarian pretzels every day, twice. This time, I have 2 designs for you, as the pretzel format didn’t really go well with the vertical phone …
Play around the edges – Wallpaper April 2023
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 …
Wallpaper March with Joan Miro quote
“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.” Joan MirĂł. What a wonderful way to describe the painting process, don’t you think? Barcelona artist Joan MirĂł came up with a good one here 🙂 There’s a reason I chose a quote that combines art and poetry and music. …
Aloha23 February wallpaper – wild and free
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 …