Illustration
Photography
#animals
#birds
#collage
#digital
#flowers
#leaves
#plants
Component of “Kulu.” All pictures © Josh Dykgaaf, shared with permission
Melbourne-based artist Josh Dykgraaf has a discerning eye for matching two seemingly disparate parts. In his ongoing Terraforms assortment, autumn leaves change into feathers, magnolia petals wind into scales, and plumes variety fins that swish by way of water. Each illustration merges flora and fauna into a very new fantastical creature, and a single piece can take days to complete, with the pair of Tawny Frogmouths, for example, clocking in at 55 hours and higher than 3,000 layers.
“My course of for a manner I pair pure textures with animals is commonly a bit like cloud gazing—like as a toddler, did you ever stare up out the clouds and make out completely completely different varieties and shapes amongst them?” Dykgraaf says, noting that he takes all of his private photos of the provision provides on hikes or walks spherical his neighborhood. As quickly as he returns to his studio, he painstakingly collages the extraordinary creatures, coating a closed beak in bark or an echidna in regrown brush following the East Gippsland fires.
Inside the coming months, Dykgraaf is shifting to a portrait assortment centered on Indigenous people all around the world. His digital works will in all probability be included in The Other Art Fair in Sydney from March 18 to 21 and the virtual edition, which runs March 23 to 28. Until then, see a much bigger assortment of the intricately constructed creatures on Behance and Instagram, and select up a print from his shop. (by designboom)
Component of “Tawu Tawu”
Component of “Burooli”
“Bunyjul”
Component of “Kulu”
Left: “Burooli.” Correct: “Thaumus”
“Kulu”
“Tawu Tawu”
“Tjirilya”
#animals
#birds
#collage
#digital
#flowers
#leaves
#plants
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