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Capturing Light and Atmosphere in Watercolor

Please join us for a Special Guest Artist demo by award-winning Watercolorist, Keiko Tanabe on Saturday, February 21st at 2pm at Seabridge Park (16252 Countess Dr. Huntington Beach).

Mostly self-taught, Keiko embarked on a professional art career in 2005 and started exhibiting publicly. Since that year her paintings have been juried into many exhibitions across Americas and in Asia and Europe. Her work has been purchased by private and corporate collectors from all around the world. She also had her paintings published in leading art magazines in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Since 2011, she has been invited to and completed successfully hundreds of workshops and numerous live demonstrations around the world. She has served as a juror in a number of art exhibitions including but not limited to major watercolor/watermedia shows around the world such as the National Watercolor Society, the Watercolor USA Honor Society, the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, the Watercolor West, Splash 22, the International Watercolour Masters, and many regional or state-wide watercolor societies and art associations such as the San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild. In 2018, she was appointed to the advisory board of the American Watercolor Weekly. In 2018 and 2019, she was invited to be a faculty member for the Plein Air Convention & Expo, the world's largest plein-air painting event. Keiko currently lives in San Diego, California.