Taleen Keldjian’s Illustrations Inspired by Water

Water and a love for swim­ming are deeply root­ed in illus­tra­tor Taleen Keld­jian’s work. The Los Ange­les-based cre­ative often revolves her images around the liq­uid, and it yields char­ac­ters like a bizarre group of scu­ba divers, a boy at the edge of the pool, and a fish­er­man. Even when not depict­ing these types of sub­jects, all of her illus­tra­tions sub­scribe to a hand-made aes­thet­ic using gouache, acrylic ink, and col­ored pen­cils. (FYI — the above image is intaglio print­ing, though!).

Like Esmé Shapiro (fea­tured ear­li­er this week), Taleen is also a recent grad­u­ate — this time, from Art Cen­ter in Pasade­na, Cal­i­for­nia. I’m look­ing for­ward to watch­ing where her career takes her!

I am obsess­ing over the cir­cu­lar illus­tra­tions below. I wish they were but­tons or something!