SubscribeRaquel Marín
Posted in Visual, Illustration on November 17th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of “Sombra” by Raquel Marín]
I first saw Raquel’s work last week in Le Cool, and it had such a good impact on me. I love simple illustrations that trick your eyes enough to allow you directly inside the scene.
Raquel Marín is a 26 year old Spanish from La Rioja.
She creates peaceful and intriguing images.
Her latest works tend to have a rough brown background that gives the final piece both a sense of nostalgia and carelessness. That’s a very interesting tendency that somehow relates to the Wabi Sabi aesthetic, but that also has a lot to do with the handmade culture: using antique or preloved materials, and understanding art as a form of personal communication beyond classic artistic techniques.
Raquel creates simple illustrations but plays a lot with light (something that in fact gets harder when the illustration is clean and uncolored). That means strong shadows and soft lights, but both very real for the flat emotional world she builds.
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