Carmen Grandes

At 47 years old and with a fast and effective social media strategy, the career of Carmen Grandes from Barcelona has taken off in an unexpected way, having achieved very good challenges in one year. He studied communication and advertising and has dedicated himself to it ever since, because despite his love for art he never considered it feasible to make a professional career out of it. She started illustrating professionally a short time ago but since she was a child she has had an inclination for art and fashion, two disciplines that she defines as an escape from reality.

His watercolor paintings stand out for their bright colours, quick and carefree strokes accompanied by outstanding shapes in black and outlined without fear of overflowing to illustrate unknown characters or portraits always inspired by fashion photography and fashion campaigns for brands such as Prada, McQueen, Isabel Marant, YSL or Dior. Carmen affirms that her style refers to the covers of the fashion magazines of the 60s and 70s. Her works are expressionist in nature and loaded with contemporary haute couture and her work is easily recognized as it is somewhat eccentric but very elegant . The creative from Barcelona describes herself as curious and peculiar and a great lover of aesthetics.

Like many renowned artists today, Carmen turned to Instagram @carmengrandes and @luluartgallery to start publishing and sharing her illustrations. The biggest surprise she got was when a magazine editor contacted her after seeing one of her Sketches. in this same social network which he had published and immediately began to receive orders for individuals.

Carmen Grandes - 'Blonde with flowers' - mixed technique