Bastarrika’s series of mind-boggling, realistic animal sculptures look as though they have washed up on the beach.
The gifted artist uses the local Basque beaches in northern Spain as the canvas for his land art.
He finds an elevated cement platform that overlooks the coast and begins depositing buckets of sand there.
To enhance the final product, Bastarrika will often use found objects as embellishments.
At first glance, the animal looks startlingly realas though it was merely taking a nap by the ocean.
The Spanish artist has also done a series of different dog breeds sleeping on the beach.
Artist Andoni Bastarrika creates hyperrealistic sand sculptures of animals.
These three-dimensional masterpieces look like they’ve crawled onto shore to take a nap.
