Watercolor and Ink Illustrations Imagine Cluttered Rooms and Well-Stocked Shops
All pictures © Rain Szeto, shared with permission
Packed inside Rain Szeto’s introspective works are untidy kitchens, cluttered market cabinets, and mechanical disarray. The San Francisco-based illustrator finds magic within the mess and chaos of on a regular basis life and imagines solitary actions like hanging laundry on the road or searching document bins. Dreamy in shade, the items exude a way of calm and nostalgia for quiet moments.
Every work is replete with colourful objects stacked and assembled into tight areas, a mode Szeto developed drawing comics in artwork college. “These particulars vary from technical particulars, resembling electrical mechanisms or a lamp design, to extra private quirks, resembling how somebody may prepare their backyard or a selected plastic stool they may use,” she tells Colossal. “I attempt to give them a way of specificity that makes it really feel as if these locations might actually exist.”
Szeto is presently engaged on items for just a few upcoming group exhibits at Giant Robot in Los Angeles, and yow will discover prints and extra of her detailed illustrations on her site and Instagram. (by way of Booooooom)
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