San­dra Dieck­mann is an illus­tra­tor liv­ing in Lon­don. Her work pairs pho­tog­ra­phy with paint­ing, and her port­fo­lio employs a num­ber of dif­fer­ent tech­niques and compositions.

Sandra’s work is often times a mix­ture of human and ani­mals, and not just co-mingling. She super imposes human faces onto zebras and reg­u­larly adds ears to any crea­ture, man or beast. I look at her col­lages and get the feel­ing that she works unre­strained, allow­ing the choices in color and con­struct to be used as long as it helps out the piece. While some work with a lim­ited color palette, San­dra works this way if she chooses to. The expe­ri­ence of view­ing her work is very liberating.

In addi­tion to her illus­tra­tion, San­dra has began a new project. She has cre­ated an illus­tra­tion game called If I Was You. The idea is that each week, a dif­fer­ent illus­tra­tor will will be invited to cre­ate a response to the pre­vi­ously fea­tured artist in illus­trat­ing their answer to the ques­tion: “If I was you, I…” and they fill in the blanks from there. The inter­est­ing part of this the cur­rent illus­tra­tion prob­a­bly won’t know the illus­tra­tor whom they are respond­ing to. This will really show the impres­sions that peo­ple make. Not only that, but their work as well. What does your work say about you, how does that influ­ence how someone’s opin­ion of you, a total stranger?

The first image below is Sandra’s start to If I Was You. All other images via her web­site.