Illustration

#animals
#Beto Val
#collage
#digital
#nature
#surreal

All pictures © Beto Val, shared with permission

Ecuadorian artist Beto Val alchemizes classic illustrations into weird compositions that mix fruits with fowl and aquatic life with land animals. Utilizing imagery out there by way of the general public area, Val cuts and repositions fins, wings, and scaly talons into surreal creatures: spherical owl faces peer out from pineapples, autumn leaves sprout from tropical birds, and a rendering evocative of a organic chart shows fish with our bodies product of strawberries, brains, and an early, industrial locomotive. Mixing the analog illustrations with the artist’s digital manipulations, the collages embody a variety of characters from the whimsical to the absurd.

Val presents prints and different items in his store, and his guide, The Nice E-book of the Imaginary Animal Kingdom, is on the market from Bookshop. You may observe the unusual hybrids he goals up subsequent on Instagram.

#animals
#Beto Val
#collage
#digital
#nature
#surreal

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