“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.
“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.” Joan Miró. What a wonderful way to describe the painting process, don’t you think? Barcelona artist Joan Miró came up with a good one here 🙂 There’s a reason I chose a quote that combines art and poetry and music. …
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 …
Shantell Martin was a new name for me, until I listened to a Podcast episode of Creative Peptalk (my current obsession, I’m trying to listen to all 3 Million episodes). Shantell Martin is a choreographer but also a visual artist. She creates huge line drawings, often in front of a live audience. And in the …
This quote really resonated with me. I have to remind myself to not always think of a camera angle when I’m painting but to paint just for painting’s and happiness’ sake. For those of you who follow my accounts on Instagram, you may have realized that I’m posting less in general and also less videos. …
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 …
The i’wi bird, also know as scarlet honeycreeper, has the most gorgeous bright scarlet red feathers. With its distinctive curved beak the i’iwi can get into lots of Hawaiian flowers to drink their nectar and act as pollinators for lots of native plants. The i’iwi population is threatened and conservation actions have been taken to …
