Artist Julia Sweda offers customized, personalized, designs and adaptations
based on the great Japanese ukiyo-e, woodblock print, urushi-e, musha-e
style painters. Beautifully detailed paintings of scenery and landscapes
(sansui-ga), Zen garden, koi water gardens, mon or kamon emblems and family
crests.
Most captivating are the portraiture of beautiful young women
and courtesans in various settings (bijin-ga). A painting of note is of
oiran enticing a young samurai in an artistic license adaptation/combination
of Torii Kiyonaga’s “The Bush-Clover Garden” and Hosada Eishi’s “The Courtesan
Takikawa".
Some of the painters covered by Julia’s paintings are
Hiroshige, Utamaro, Masanobu, Eizan, Kunisada, Toyonobu, Chikanobu and Jakuchu.
Their works are fully customized and colorized to add depth with vibrancy
to already wonderful, timeless works of art.
Covering other Orientalia
related artworks are a detailed, ornate, portrait of a young maiden of the
Bai ethnic minority of China and “Druk” the Bhutanese Thunder Dragon.
Address:
PO Box 8919
Catalina, AZ
85738
Phone:
(520) 825-3438
Daily: 10 AM to 8 PM
Arizona Time Zone
"Julia was wonderful to work with, very accommodating
and even matched my fabric colors and swatches for my clients kitchen
backsplash."
-Mike B.
"Julia did an amazing job and is very busy. She communicated
well with the list of wild flowers and pictures I sent her, of the blooms
here at our home."
- Ann P.
Artworks by Julia ©