Canadian illustrator Koyamori creates some superb watercolours full of fantasy and imagination. It’s so easy to get lost in the worlds she creates…I’d love to see her make a book for children. If you’d like to buy original art prints of her watercolour paintings, see here.

Natalia Toledo aka Sei00 is from Chile and is currently studying Multimedia Communication at UNIACC. She uses digital techniques or watercolours to colour her fun-filled illustrations. Visit her Deviant Art page to see more.

Esther Diana hails from Spain. Character design, background art, conceptual art, graphic design and traditional editorial illustration are all among her many talents. From vector to watercolours, she demonstrates what a powerhouse of a talent she is. As always, we have a small selection for you to glance over here at The Lounge, so please do click through to her website and see a lot more excellent work.

Ali is from St Louis, where she currently lives with her husband and four children. Her signature pieces often depict girls wearing stripy socks over their hands, creating striking compositions using negative space effectively and evoking a playful, child-like quality. She uses a technique she describes as ‘modern fresco’, applying watercolours to plaster panels.

“My dependence on the visual world began when I lost much of my hearing through spinal meningitis at 2 years of age. This loss was a blessing in disguise as I learned to depend on body language and reading lips to communicate. So, from my youngest days, I became sensitive to the people around me and the unspoken language revealed through compositions of the human body.”

View more of Ali Cavanaugh’s work on her blog.

German painter Charlene ‘Aurora’ Wienhold has some sublime watercolours on her Deviant Art page. I really like the warm tones of pink and yellow she often uses. If you like what you see, check out her Society6 page, where you can buy some of her prints.

The beautiful silhouettes and washed out tones of Kareem Iliya make up this week’s Fashion Friday. It’s incredible how the simple shapes and colours have such a dramatic effect; there is definitely something to be learned from this. The vast portfolios on Kareem’s website are a pleasure to look through. Highly recommended.

Nuno Da Costa is a London based fashion illustrator with great technique and a sense of style that shines through in his work. He hand draws and then paints his illustrations with water colours and Gouache. Once he is happy, he then takes them into Photoshop for touch-ups and further digital painting. It’s a nice technique, as it’s not always easy to clean things up off-screen.

Nuno’s impressive client list includes Christian Dior, Vogue UK, Disney, Proctor & Gamble, Max Factor et al.