{"id":5395,"date":"2013-04-25T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:24:36","slug":"rachel-levit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/25\/rachel-levit\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Rachel Levit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/buster-rachellevit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5397\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/25\/rachel-levit\/buster-rachellevit\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/buster-rachellevit.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,732\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"buster-rachellevit\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/buster-rachellevit.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5397\" alt=\"buster-rachellevit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/buster-rachellevit.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/buster-rachellevit.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/buster-rachellevit-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rachellevit.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Levit<\/a> is another artist recently featured on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buysomedamnart.com\/collections\/rachel-levit\" target=\"_blank\">Buy Some Damn Art<\/a>. Her work varies in style across different mediums from painting to illustration to digital. The soft faces of her characters cast a poetic gaze onto the viewer under the stroke of a brush.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/botany-rachellevit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5396\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/25\/rachel-levit\/botany-rachellevit\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/botany-rachellevit.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,732\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"botany-rachellevit\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/botany-rachellevit.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5396\" alt=\"botany-rachellevit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/botany-rachellevit.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/botany-rachellevit.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/botany-rachellevit-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ribbon-rachellevit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5400\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/25\/rachel-levit\/ribbon-rachellevit\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ribbon-rachellevit.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,820\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"ribbon-rachellevit\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ribbon-rachellevit.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5400\" alt=\"ribbon-rachellevit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ribbon-rachellevit.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ribbon-rachellevit.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ribbon-rachellevit-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pinksweater-rachellevit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5399\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/25\/rachel-levit\/pinksweater-rachellevit\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pinksweater-rachellevit.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,753\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"pinksweater-rachellevit\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pinksweater-rachellevit.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5399\" alt=\"pinksweater-rachellevit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pinksweater-rachellevit.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pinksweater-rachellevit.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pinksweater-rachellevit-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I love this infographic portrait, very clever and unique.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/infographic-rachellevit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5398\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/25\/rachel-levit\/infographic-rachellevit\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/infographic-rachellevit.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"infographic-rachellevit\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/infographic-rachellevit.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5398\" alt=\"infographic-rachellevit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/infographic-rachellevit.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/infographic-rachellevit.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/infographic-rachellevit-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Levit is another artist recently featured on Buy Some Damn Art. Her work varies in style across different mediums from painting to illustration to digital. The soft faces of her characters cast a poetic gaze onto the viewer under the stroke of a brush. I love this infographic portrait, very clever and unique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,146,70],"tags":[37,125,1872,1868,916],"class_list":["post-5395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-illustration","category-painting","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-illustration","tag-painting","tag-rachel-levit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1p1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5860,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/06\/lilli-carre\/","url_meta":{"origin":5395,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Lilli Carr\u00e9","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"June 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been a fan of Lilli Carr\u00e9's\u00a0style of illustration ever since I purchased her 2008 graphic novel The Lagoon. 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