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According to Akie Nakata, each stone has a story. Akie is a self-taught artist who has been collecting stones since she was a child, and started to create stone paintings in 2011.
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She recalled talking a walk along a river bank and seeing a pebble that looked like a rabbit. That was the spark that started her art.
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When asked where she gets the inspiration to paint a specific animal to a specific stone, she says that she paints what she sees.
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That each stone is shaped according to its own destined character, “To me, completing a piece of work is not about how much detail I draw, but whether I feel the life in the stone” Akie said in an interview with My Modern Met.
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Akie’s works are extremely lifelike.
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The details painted to each stone are incredibly intricate. One look and you know how much effort was exerted for each masterpiece.
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Among her works are paintings of dogs, crocodiles, cats , lions, bears, raccoons, mom and baby elephants, polar bears, a family of possums and owls, only to name a few.
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Akie paints the body of the animal first, and the eyea are the very last part of her work.
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When the eyes have been painted, it is when Akie knows that her work is done. Check out her stone masterpieces on Instagram and on Facebook.
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Meet Japanese artist Akie Nakata, here portrayed with one of her stones transformed into a mini Himalayan Cat.
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