Rachel Yost | Background Painter & Designer | Artist Showcase

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RACHEL
YOST.

Painted places.
Stories waiting.

A cozy room hidden inside a tree. A cottage beneath a huge sky. A city corner with a story just out of frame. Step into the worlds of background painter and designer Rachel Yost.

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Meet the artist behind the atmosphere

Small details.
Whole new worlds.

Rachel is a Los Angeles-based background painter and designer whose work spans animation and print. She creates environments, props and illustrations that help a story feel like somewhere you could actually go.

Her public portfolio brings together painted backgrounds, design work and gouache studies. Away from the drawing board, she describes a love of cats, indie games and wonderfully dorky characters.

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Rachel’s illustrated self-portrait with glasses and a green top — Rachel’s illustrated self-portrait, from her official portfolio.

A little curiosity goes a long way. Follow the light, notice the shapes and spend a minute with the places Rachel builds.

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Somewhere you
want to stay awhile.

Light and color do more than fill a scene. They give it a time of day, a mood and the feeling that something might happen next.

Painted storybook cottage with a thatched roof beneath a bright sky

A cottage in the light.

Warm roofs, rounded shapes and a sky that feels full of possibility.

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Warmly lit illustrated tree interior with mushroom-shaped lamps and small household details

A world within a tree.

Mushroom lamps, winding roots and a room packed with lived-in details.

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From structure to atmosphere

Look behind the scene.

A strong setting starts before the final color pass. Compare these public portfolio examples to see how structure, shapes and values become the foundation for a painted world.

Grayscale neighborhood design with houses, palms and a sloping street — **Design:** a neighborhood built from shapes, perspective and value.

A sunlit neighborhood painting presented with two alternate lighting studies — **Painting:** the neighborhood with color and alternate lighting studies.

Line drawing of a detailed tree-house interior with mushroom lamps — **Linework:** the tree interior and its many small details.

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A different kind of looking

Outside, with paint.

Rachel’s portfolio also includes plein-air gouache. These studies trade imagined settings for observed light, trees and architecture, keeping the brushwork visible.

Gouache study of sunlit trees with two people sitting in the grass — Sunlight through the trees.

Gouache study of an observatory building against a blue sky — Architecture against a bright sky.

Orange and purple gouache study of a bridge and surrounding structures — A bridge in warm orange and purple.

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in mind?

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