Artist: Chaira Bautista

 Chaira Bautista: 

https://beautifulbizarre.net/2014/06/23/chiara-bautista-love-sings-paper-interview/ 


Quoted from link above:

At 38 years old, Chiara Bautista is one of the most fascinating artist that has ever been revealed by the Internet. What fascinates is of course her work first, from sketches to digital art and painting, with recognizable gracious lines and elements that connect her to pop surrealism and graphic novels. Indeed every piece of Chiara’s work is inhabited by mysterious and poetic creatures borrowed from fairy tales and released into the modern world. But it’s her story that makes Chiara’s work unique and spellbinding. Not especially her life’s bio, a bachelor’s degree in Graphic design and a long career as an illustrator for the Arizona Daily Star, in her home of Tucson, USA. No, it’s her out-of-this-world, romantic relationship with her muse, nicknamed Ilka, met online and never in real life (as far as we know). The art of Chiara is a real conversation with her muse that we are able to witness, without having the keys of understanding, we are still caught up in all its magic and romance. No need to add more.

Bautista has a more cartoonish approach to working and I really enjoy that about her work as well as the nature of the words she chooses, each feeling careful. The repetition of certain characters is also interesting and feels an informed choice. 

I love the darker themes made almost cute as well as making more commentary on human psyche.

I want to make a recurrent theme in my own practice and I feel looking at Bautista's work will help me to form my own characters that will follow a story perhaps? This will require further work.  

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