Digital Collages by Beto Val Splice Vintage Illustrations into Surreal Hybrid Creatures



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 obtainable by means 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 manufactured from 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 gives prints and different items in his shop, and his ebook, The Nice E-book of the Imaginary Animal Kingdom, is offered from Bookshop. You may comply with the unusual hybrids he desires up subsequent on Instagram.

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