Mosslike | Gemma Hazen

Tag: watercolor

  • 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.

  • Multi-media Portrait Of My Beautiful Mom | Ink Wash & Digital Colorization

    Multi-media Portrait Of My Beautiful Mom | Ink Wash & Digital Colorization

    This portrait is of my beautiful mom 🖤 She was photographed for a newspaper article while making lei of plumeria flowers with another hula dancer.

    The black and white portion of this portrait is done in ink wash, in a large sketchbook of mine. Layer and layer of increasingly dark dilutions of ink and water.

    I scanned the original ink portrait and added a digitally painted background and ‘colorized’ parts of it. This was made as a gift for either a birthday or mother’s day.