My on-line fabric shop "alohajoy" is opened!

Hello October🍃
I am so happy tp announce that my on-line store at Spoonflower is open finally this week!🌱✨My store name is "alohajoy", Hawai'i inspired happy design. For past two years, I began dreaming about having my own designs on fabric.  I hope I can share my aloha and joy of living on my Island, and the beauty of God's creation...and hope my designs will bring sunshine, rainbow and tropical breeze to your home from Hawai'i. Please let me know if you would like a design at a different scale, and I would be glad to upload that. And please request any design you would like to see in the future. Photos of these baby outfits and accessories are my mock-up to visualize my dream😉 
Mahalo and blessings~

my fabric store "alohajoy" at Spoonflower

☀️a little 'i'iwi bird wants to tell you what he hears and sees, how beautiful these islands are🌱🌿🌴a part of illustration I did for a special song book of Hawai'i🐥🎼🌸that is coming out this year from Island Heritage Publisher.

progress on a new picture book about song and colors of Hawai'i

I am always happy illustrating Hawaiian nature🌱🌿I am so honored and grateful that I have been working on a new picture book about song and colors of Hawai'i. I feel truly blessed to illustrate this special book, and I cannot wait to share with you more🙂
Have a wonderful day with music in your heart 🎼🌺🌿

Happy Mother's Day!🌸

Hello everyone! Hello spring!
And Happy blessed Mother's Day🌸to all the mom's and children!
Here is a little Mother's day animation I made for you...🌱to say
you are dearly loved🙏🏻
Enjoy!

Psalms Coloring Book from Japanese publisher Olives

My new coloring book "Coloring book for adults with scripture verses from Psalm" in English and Japanese was released this month. This is my first book I worked with publisher in Japan, so I feel very honored and blessed.

Even though I call Hawai'i my home now, being born and raised in Japan and visit my family regularly there, part of my heart is always with Japan. I dedicated this book to my mom, who is paralyzed in right side arm four years ago by stroke, and started coloring for her left hand rehab.

During working on this project, God had taught me so much about His love and care, not only for my mom but for me and entire family.  This book became so dear to my heart.
Japan has only less than 1% of Christian population, and I went to Japan mission trip six time now...my sincere prayer is that this little coloring book will be used as a ministry tool to bring God's words to their lives.

They are plants and animals from Bible to color, with scriptures from Book of Psalms. It is available only in Japan so far (amazon.jp), but hopefully soon in Amazon.

Publisher: Olives (gospelshop.jp)

email: gospelhq@wlpm.or.jp

New! 10 Little Geckos: Hawaiian Count-Down

Juggling with my day job of being a high school teacher and doing all my art things is sometimes...challenging, but I am so so thankful to God for these beautiful and colorful experiences in my life.

My newest book "10 Little Geckos: Hawaiian Count-Down: is finally here! I'm so excited to see this book came out very beautifully and cute:) The book is Hawaiian version of a popular count-down rhyme and I had this idea about 7 years ago or so... and wrote it, edit it, illustrated it, modified it many times...to this one! As usual with all my recent books, I merged both hand-drawn elements and digital collage, and the funnest part of illustrating this book was to incorporate the fun-messy-textures to the background.

10 Little Geckos is an adorable Little Rainbow Reader book that teaches young children counting in an engaging and colorful way. The book follows ten multicolored geckos and their adventures under the Hawaiian sun. They visit their friends all throughout the islands including a dolphin, a mynah bird, and even a hula dancing girl! 10 Little Geckos follows an engaging rhyming pattern that tells a cute story while making it easier for children to memorize numbers. Each page also features the Hawaiian word for the numbers one through ten. It is sure to be a favorite among keiki! Hardcover. 23 pages. Available from welcometotheislands.com  $12.95, and soon from Amazon.

10 Little Geckos:Hawaiian Count Down
written and illustrated by Yuko Green
Island Heritage Publishing @2018

10 ('umi) first spread
10 little geckos waking up in the morning and and ready for the day's adventures

3 ('ekolu)
in the afternoon toward the evening, geckos going home
and now only 3 left

illustrations for "10 Little Geckos" finished!

My first post this year. May your new year filled with peace, growth, and discovery of new things. As for me, last year was yes, many discoveries, learning (yes always) and growth. 

My motto this year is to trust God, trust my journey...
Many things in my life for last few years asked me who I wanted to be, what I really wanted to do, be really honest with myself (and be a little bit bolder😊).  So I decide to give myself permission to take more chances to explore new ways to do my art. I was always attracted to beautiful messy canvas textures, so I made collage painting on canvases and merged them into my digital collage as background... I also played more with photoshop and what fun I had, I was like a child again! I really enjoyed the whole process of making this book. 

I wrote this story "10 Little Gecko" about 10 years ago, and was accepted by my publisher last spring. With my day job as a high school teacher and all other things, the process was slow with a big learning curve, but I am so happy with the results. I finished all illustration finally working from summer. It will come out for 2018 Christmas🎄from Island Heritage Publishing. For more details of my books and illustrations, please check my instagram @yukogreen.art.

cover sketches
10 Little Geckos by Yuko Green

almost there...cover illustration
10 Little Geckos by Yuko Green

Ocean Friends 1-2-3

Ocean Friends 1-2-3
written by Kevin Teruya
illustrated by Yuko Green
32 pages
© Island Heritage 2017
ISBN#: 1-61710-321-7

Ocean Friends 1-2-3 is a colorful and creative book for children to learn counting one to ten in English, Hawaiian, and Japanese with a little Hawaiian monk seal, ‘liio, through his adventure. He will meet friends like playful dolphins, busy honu, and grandfater octopus! He even has a tiny gecko friend hidden on every page, be sure to find him :)
Available now at stores in Hawaii and from Island Heritage.

Island Yumi Paper Doll Play Set

                                   

island Yumi Paper Doll Play Se
2 Paper Dolls, reusable stickers, fold-out play scenes
created by Yuko Green
© 2016 Island Heritage

Go on endless adventures with Aloha, Mai, puppy Poi and Kitty cat. Dress them up in cute outfits, add props and accessories as they explore fold-open stores and market stands. Includes 2 stand-up dolls, 2 stand-up sets, 5 play scenes, and 70 reusable vinyl stickers! Carrying case makes travel easy and keeps all pieces neatly stored. Packaged acetate box approx. measurements: 6-17/20” (w) x 6-1/2” (h) x 1-1/8” (d) $7.99 at Hawaii's local stores and from Island Heritage Publishing.

New! Honu Honu, Where Are You?

Baby Dolphin wants to play. Join him as he looks high and low for his friend Honu, the baby sea turtle and discovers so much more on this fun ocean adventure. Young children will love looking for Honu under the lift-the-flap hiding spots. Written in rhyme by Tammy Paikai and colorfully illustratedby me.

14 pages, $11.95. 

At local stores and from Island Heritage Publishing, and amazon.

Honu Honu, Where Are You?

Written by Tammy Paikai

Illustrated by Yuko Green

(c) 2016 Island Heriage

ISBN: 1-61710-282-2