Visually Satisfying Painted Illustrations are Cloaked in Golden Hour Glows

Born in Port­land and now liv­ing in LA, illus­tra­tor Celia Jacobs employs a lim­it­ed col­or palette and a painter­ly touch to her por­trait-dri­ven work. Reds, pinks, greens, and yel­lows are the defin­ing hues of her illus­tra­tion art, and they cloak her world in a per­ma­nent gold­en hour glow.

Her for­mal choic­es are keep­ing in line with her over­all artis­tic phi­los­o­phy. “My aes­thet­ic is pret­ty col­or­ful, soft and a lit­tle hard, sweet and a lit­tle weird,” she explained to Ball Pit Mag. “I like every­thing to look pur­pose­ful, but like [I] hand made it pur­pose­ful­ly, so it got a lit­tle messed up on the way. I hope to make real­ly ordi­nary stuff with just a lit­tle more mag­ic on top.”

Celia sells her work as prints and on tote bags in her Tic­tail shop.