Mosslike | Gemma Hazen

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  • ALOHA! Artist Introduction

    ALOHA! Artist Introduction

    Aloha!

    🌺 I’m Gemma ~ a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Hawaiʻi. ✊🏼 Kanaka ʻŌiwi

    🖤 My work explores dark naturalism, Hawaiian lore, and local flora & fauna through traditional and digital mediums. I also enjoy doing portraits of people, pets and plants.

    What you’ll see here:

    • Painting – acrylic & watercolors – one day I’ll be brave enough for oils
    • Drawing & Illustration
    • Ink Work, Fountain Pens & Calligraphy
    • ProCreate process videos
    • Bespoke Hand-embroidery projects
    • … and lots more!

    (p.s. I’m trying my best to add good ALT descriptors for accessibility reasons – still learning best practices while I’m new here in the Fediverse!)

    (p.p.s. I am slowly learning the following languages – let’s talk! : ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, Française)

    (p.p.p.s. I’m building a little thing here on my site because I’d like to eventually run away from Instagram and never look back🖤)

    Find my online journal & ARTIST shop @ mosslike.com

    Ink & watercolor sketches of Hawaiian flora, featuring a bold orange Wiliwili flower, a muted green Wiliwili variant, and two purple Honohono orchids against a white paper background.
    Wiliwili and Honohono
    An Ink artwork of a deer facing outwards on an outcropping of earth in a shallow but reflective pool with the full moon in the distance.
    Ink and watercolor drawing of Pua Kala, also known as the Hawaiian Poppy. Itʻs a delicate white flower with a deep yellow center and very hardy thorns. Background is a pale green.
    Two black and white ink drawings of sickle-shaped Koa leaves and their little white pompom flowers.

  • Ink & Watercolor Mamaki for day 2 of Inktober

    Ink & Watercolor Mamaki for day 2 of Inktober

    Today’s drawing is of Mamaki (Pipturus albidus). It’s a native Hawaiian plant that is used in lāʻau lapaʻau (traditional medicine practices). It’s known to help with digestive problems, skin ailments, and respiratory conditions among other things. Plus, I learned a new-to-me fact about Mamaki while doing some reference searching on Google. It is also helpful in treating Dementia! (source) I know it’s popular as a brewed tea, so I went out and bought some for my mom. Our family member has dementia, and was coming over to visit today. Hopefully they can share some tea 🖤

    This plant once existed in my yard, just like the Koa from yesterday’s post. I think it dried out completely one hot summer when I wasn’t watering enough. Sigh. It had really big, deep green leaves with purple veins. Due to my organic & lazy gardening practices, the leaves always had stuff on them so I rarely made tea.

    This drawing came together pretty quickly. Which I’m grateful for, because I had a busy day!! I used my favorite waterproof hot pink ink to make this drawing. It’s called Noodler’s Ink Bulletproof Rachmaninoff. I always use a LAMY Safari fountain pen. I used my trusty watercolors to add the greens and yellows. And I relined it with hot pink watercolor to finish it up!

    I hope you like it! Tomorrow’s post will be about today’s plant in Laulima Hawaii’s prompt list, the Pua Kala. I’ve never even heard of this flower before but I already love the look of it. Subscribe to my email list so you don’t miss my next post.

  • My Latest Goal: Do More Portrait Art (again)

    My Latest Goal: Do More Portrait Art (again)

    So I need to make more stuff. Lol. Story of my life. Coming out of yet another rut. Or I could characterize it as a trough before a great crest. Right, isn’t that more of a growth mindset? So, I’m here to say, I’ll be making more portraits.

    Here is the most recent example from my sketchbook. I posted the progress video on:

    Instagram

    TikTok

    @m0sslike

    #shelleyduvall #ink #portrait #inkdrawing #art

    ♬ Stuck In The Middle – Tai Verdes

    This rough portrait took me about 25 minutes. From pencil sketch all the way til I ruined it with extra ink. Luckily I took photos and ended the videos before that happened.

    Sometimes, I’ll be grabbing inspiration for future portraits from the Sktchy / Museum app as usual. In that app, a ton of people post their images. They hope someone will use that image for portrait practice! I love the images that are clear with high contrast!

    I think I’ll also be doing celebrity portraits. I hate doing this because I don’t have specific rights to the photos I use as reference. BUT, in the past, using a popular celebrity image drives up the likes & follows. Comment if you’d like to see any of your favorite celebrities painted! 🖤

    I enjoy making portraits. I always think, people, pets, & plants. So much character and observation.

    If you’ve made it this far in my post – I’m also still open to practice with your photos (pets are cool too)! Email me @ Gemma@mosslike.com 🖤 If I like the photo you send me, I’ll do a free practice portrait of it. Thanks for reading!