Pietari Posti

I absolutely adore Pietari Posti's work! Its so intricate and beautiful and has a lovely vintage feel. The pieces remind me of old book cover illustrations that you would get as a child.

The line work is wonderful, so many intricate swirls and details coupled with large doses of flat colour. It creates a lovely contrast and also gives a lovely screen print feel.
The colour choice is sensitive often using contrasting tones for better impact or similarly muted tones to give a more serene feel, and also echoing the vintage feel.
I particularly love these bookmarks which are sequential in themselves and looks lovely. The main bodies display contrasting swirls against a dark sea background and the characters popping up from the sea are beautifully detailed. The cut out areas have a little outline like with my work, that makes the bookmarks more robust but also makes them stand out.

The work is really inspiring, using restricted colour palettes yet again, and intricate details and pasterns that really set the image off. Another important thing, is the fact that often alot of white is left on the illustration which highlights the characters and creates a better contrast.
I love these!