Keiko Tanabe, an award-winning watercolor artist and California local, is doing an amazing series of San Diego landscapes- one hundred of them to be exact! She has titled it the "San Diego 100". She just posted No. 85. Its been pretty exciting to follow the landscapes she chooses....from daily life landscapes of traffic and residential streets, to the more quintessential San Diego locations such as Balboa Park (one of my favorite places! Spanish Baroque Revivial architecure everwhere you look!), the Del Mar Fairgrounds and Coronado. My favorite medium is admittingly not watercolor....but I really, truly admire the quality and overall style of Keiko's watercolors. She is my favorite contemporary watercolorist....and, whats even better- she is a genuine person who deeply loves what she does. Also, she is selling the originals! I am a fan of "real" art....it just has more soul. It doesnt have to cost a million dollars, but it has to speak to you. That's what art is all about. Check out her San Diego 100....you won't be sorry! Ten of my personal favorites.....

To see more of Keiko Tanabe's work, or to contact the artist directly, go to any of these galleries or contact her here.