Series of Paintings

Copyright © Keiko Stong Artist 2010

As I have pursued painting, time and again I have become fascinated with a particular topic, subject, or even medium. Sometimes my eagerness to follow a particular trail, or series, is simply because it’s a new technique and I want to try it several times to learn its secrets and improve my hand at it. Other times I come across a subject that entrances me and, like with learning a new media, I find myself drawn to painting different subjects of similar kind…again, to experience the creation of that particular art, to understand a bit more of its challenges and depths and secrets.

And, so, over the years I have ended up with several series of paintings. I didn’t start out to create them. Rather, they just happened along the way of my journey as an artist.

So far, my series are:

● Tropical Marine Life

- A celebration of the strange shapes and vivid colors of fish and other life forms in our oceans

- Watercolors

- Approximately 15 paintings

● Hands

- Focus on human hands: they reflect out lives

- Acrylic

- 2 paintings

● Flowers

- Another celebration of shapes & brilliant colors; this time land-based

- Watercolors

- Approximately 8 paintings

● Landscapes and Waterscapes

- Finding the beauty of our earth

- Acrylic or oil

- Approximately 13 paintings

● Heavens

- Exploring the beauty and mystery of space & the universe

- Oil

- Approximately 10 paintings

● Things Japanese

- Delving into my heritage, especially cultural aspects, aesthetics, and the patterns embedded in kimono, washi-paper, and family crests

- Acrylic or oil

- Approximately 9 paintings

● Pattern Painting

- A fusing of landscapes and Japanese (-like) patterns; adding a bright overlay to the beauty of earth

- Acrylic or oil

- Approximately 46 paintings

So many subjects,

So much beauty,

So little time!

Keiko

Keiko Stong

E-mail: keikostong55@hotmail.com

Blog #: 10-10-029

“Art communicates emotion.”