Tag: watercolor illustration

Eva Válková creates handmade children’s illustrations filled with soft colours, imaginative landscapes, animals, and small stories hidden throughout each page. Inspired by the illustrated books she loved as a child and the creative environment she grew up in, Eva approaches illustration as a way to shape mood, emotion, and curiosity rather than simply explain a story. Working entirely by hand with watercolour, coloured pencils, and fine liners, she creates slow, thoughtful images that encourage children to stay on the page and look closer. Birds, mice, beetles, and other tiny characters often…

Reihaneh Shahali creates watercolor paintings filled with stillness, atmosphere, and emotional warmth, transforming everyday subjects into places that feel deeply familiar. Working between sketchbooks and larger compositions, she paints flowers, boats, quiet streets, and figures with a softness that allows the paper to breathe alongside the color. Although she works professionally as a software developer, painting has remained a constant part of her life, becoming more serious after university when she began focusing fully on watercolor. Influenced by mood more than perfection, her process centers on balance, leaving space within each…