TokikoAnderson

Profile

Age: 61
City: Portland
Country: United States

Joined: May 2008

I　am a Japanese American born in Japan; a water-color painter and a grandmother of
2 grandsons. I came to US in 1972, live in Portland Oregon since 1980.
People say I paint like no one else. I suppose I finally developed my way of controlling water and pigment.
They say water-color paint is the unforgiven media. It does not allow mistakes. They also discourage mix colors to avoid make them muddy. If so I have given up painting long ago. I changed all those misconception. What I love is the tone between bright and dark. Where all the emotion stays. Another study I struggled years was to find the way to make colors shine. I need dark color to make bright color brighter. Some artist use the enamel pigment to get effect. Then too much contrast turn the picture into 2 dimension. So I discovered the middle tone. How to control the middle tone is the key to the good painting. Every artists has the different way to show, express and speak for themselves in the artworks.
I avoid strong outlines. Without outlines I create extra dimension, make distant in the landscape and put meat on the body.
I don’t use the line to define objects from the background. If I do that separate the subject from the environment. Instead I let it melts away into the back ground so the world continue on to the new demention.

I unleash my art work and let them walk into the viewers imagination.