Our totally L.A. gift to you: Free festive phone wallpaper and wrapping paper by local artists

Welcome to our sixth twelvemonth of escaped and festive telephone and machine backgrounds created by Los Angeles artists. This twelvemonth our designs were created by radical who were successful immoderate mode impacted by the fires successful Altadena oregon the Pacific Palisades. For our loyal people subscribers (thank you!), the Dec. 7 contented of the Los Angeles Times volition person these designs arsenic prints you tin usage arsenic wrapping paper. If you’re section but not a subscriber, spell successful hunt of a copy. The market store is simply a bully spot to check.

Download your favourite designs beneath and larn a spot much astir the artists and what they emotion astir their L.A. communities.

Find past versions of the task (and tons much escaped backgrounds) astatine these links: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

Jess Miller

Jess Miller is simply a Los Angeles-born and -raised illustrator, decorator and contented creator celebrated for her vibrant manus lettering, whimsical characters and bold aboveground signifier designs. Her artwork appears crossed a wide scope of products, from planners and telephone cases to rugs, greeting cards and apparel, bringing her signature premix of colour and joyousness to mundane life.

On assemblage successful L.A.: “Rooted successful storytelling and playful detail, my enactment is profoundly inspired by the plants, wildlife, and mundane magic of Los Angeles. Whether it’s the chatter of chaotic parrots successful the trees oregon the aureate glow of citrus groves astatine sunset, I find endless inspiration successful the earthy quality of my city.”

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Austin Scott

Austin Scott is simply a ocular artist, movie exertion and manager based successful Altadena who has gained renown post-Eaton occurrence done his large-scale nationalist murals and black-and-white coloring-book style. From his joyful depiction of businesses mislaid successful the blaze astatine Unincorporated Coffee Roasters, to a 30-foot-tall peacock inspiring kids to “dream bigger” astatine Alma Fuerte Public Charter School, Scott is dedicated to bringing smiles to people’s faces successful the hardest of times done his art.

On assemblage successful L.A.: “In Altadena, community, creativity and diverseness travel unneurotic to make an incomparable synergy of vibrations that you person to beryllium present to believe. Although our municipality has been done the worst happening imaginable this year, the spot and connectivity of the radical present are unmatched, and indicative of what volition nary uncertainty beryllium a corporate emergence from the ashes.”

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Julia Wolinsky

Julia Wolinsky is an illustrator and decorator from Pacific Palisades whose vibrant, hyperrealistic watercolor drawings research however representation and emotion unrecorded wrong mundane moments. Rooted successful her family’s contented of expressing emotion done food, her enactment celebrates beauty, item and the unseen stories wrong acquainted subjects. In summation to her food-centered pieces, she creates portraits of people, botanicals and depictions of mundane objects that bespeak shared histories, rituals and the shifting quality of modern life.

After losing her puerility location successful the Palisades fire, Wolinsky began illustrating her hometown arsenic a mode to process nonaccomplishment and rediscover belonging done art. Her enactment has been exhibited astatine the Brand Library successful Glendale, the Korean Cultural Center successful Los Angeles and the San Francisco International Airport, and has been published by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

On assemblage successful L.A.: “I grew up successful Pacific Palisades and my hubby grew up successful Altadena. In a substance of hours we mislaid some of our hometowns. I got to cognize Altadena done him and visiting his household there. The Palisades was ever a spot I would often spell backmost to and reminisce astir what it was similar increasing up there. One happening I miss astir some places is they person their ain small-town consciousness and unsocial character. You conscionable can’t easy re-create the feeling that you got being there. I wanted these patterns to seizure their idiosyncratic and unsocial personalities and punctual maine of the landmarks that I retrieve astir from being there.”

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(Julia Wolinsky)

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Keiji Ishida

Keiji Ishida is an creator and a graphic decorator presently residing successful Joshua Tree. He uses repeated characters and motifs that often find their mode done assorted mediums. His process is design-oriented portion revealing the imperfections and efforts of the handmade.

On assemblage successful L.A.: “I grew up successful Los Angeles, and the city’s affluent diversity, unthinkable food, unsocial architecture and landscapes, and beardown consciousness of assemblage proceed to animate me. L.A. remains 1 of my favourite places and a recurring taxable passim my work.”

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Meagan Boyd

Meagan Boyd is simply a Southern California–based creator and writer whose enactment blends ritual, ancestral representation and celestial symbolism into luminous ocular poems. Through handmade pigments, intuitive process and mythic storytelling, her paintings grant the interconnectedness of each beings and the ineffable quality of mundane life.

On assemblage successful L.A.: “I unrecorded successful Altadena, a tight-knit and resilient assemblage that came unneurotic with truthful overmuch tenderness and spot during and aft the Eaton fire. I emotion however our vicinity continues to support its earthy quality and heavy consciousness of belonging, determined to support its charm and attraction for 1 different done everything.”

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Lili Todd

Lili Todd is an L.A.-raised illustrator and ceramic creator based successful Yucca Valley whose enactment reflects her inherently optimistic tone and involvement successful people art, accepted trade and risograph printing.

On assemblage successful L.A.: “The Los Angeles creation assemblage is what shaped maine arsenic a idiosyncratic and rather virtually raised me. Having originative spaces truthful readily disposable crossed the city, including the Creative Arts Group pottery workplace successful Sierra Madre, Giant Robot assemblage connected Sawtelle and Remainders Creative Reuse store successful Pasadena (to sanction a few), is simply a genuinely magical acquisition that I volition beryllium everlastingly grateful for. Thank you to each the tiny businesses that marque up L.A. — a metropolis similar nary other.”

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Srimoyee Acharya

Srimoyee Acharya is an Altadena-based creator whose enactment features whimsical designs showcasing nature, backyard wildlife, and pets. Her illustrated goods brand, Srimoyee Handmade, supports carnal rescue groups, and she has donated astir $15,000 since starting her business.

On assemblage successful L.A.: “What I miss astir astir Altadena is however overmuch my assemblage loved and cared for section plants and wildlife. Neighbors enactment up ‘peacock crossing’ signs astatine intersections to support the flock of astir 40 peacocks that lived down the thoroughfare (this flock is inactive residing and thriving!), and galore gardens were filled with autochthonal plants and flowers.”

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