Dyes + Paints
As an ʻāina-based artist, crafting color with earthly elements is one of my favorite challenges. From soils to lake pigments, plant dyes to ecoprints, the rainbow hues coaxed from the land leave me spellbound every time.
Please contact me if you are interested in:
- paint, dye, or ink workshops (ages 5 and up).
- custom paint or ink sets.
Mulling local red soil into paint.
A collection of handmade watercolors, stored in ʻopihi and other shells.
Roselle hibiscus dye on kapa.
An ensemble of locally-foraged plant dyes and earth pigments on kapa.
ʻUkiʻuki (Dianella sandwicensis) berries make a gorgeous blue dye!
Watercolor paintset crafted with local materials.
Cotton shirt dyed with māmaki and ʻuhaloa and then ecoprinted with māmaki leaves.
Progress shot while painting hāhālua (manta rays) using charcoal collected from a wildfire.
Pōpolo (Solanum americanum) leaves can be used to make a gorgeous green lake pigment, here being mulled to make watercolors.
Chalk collected in Scotland was used to paint the manuokū in my kapa piece "Mind Matters".