“Art is magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds.” Leonora Harrington As always, you can download your free wallpaper from my dropbox. Its available in 2 sizes and there are 2 versions for your phone, too.
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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
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April’s wallpaper features a bunch of prints from leaves foraged here in my backyard. I had so much fun with this printing technique that I might just have gone a lil overboard with the leaves 😉 For this reason, I’m offering you two versions of the wallpaper this month. One features an art quote, the
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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
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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
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Surfing in December? Absolutely when you look at Hawai’i! The biggest waves happen during the winter season and you can see lots of people out there on the ocean. I don’t surf but love watching it and in general, spending time in and around the ocean. For this piece I used aloha watercolors Kohola (Hawaiian
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The October wallpaper features liquid Ecoline watercolors and a dash of metallic aloha watercolor (Callisto). The lettering was done with the fabulous digital pencil brushes by Aude (@lettersis). As always, your wallpaper is available for download in different sizes (for your phone, too!) and with or without dates. Download here from my dropbox.
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For this colorful background I used only 3 aloha watercolors: Mango, Orchid and Kalani. 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
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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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Your free wallpaper of May shows the famous Pele (short for Pelehonuamea, which means “she who shapes the sacred land”). Pele is the powerful goddess of volcanoes and fires and resides in Kilauea, one of the volcanoes here on the Big island of Hawai’i. One of the first things I’ve been told here
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