Alekssennwald

Work / Illustration

Aleks Sennwald

Words by Jez Burrows, Tuesday 23 September 2008

This image has been sitting on my desktop for a good few weeks waiting for me to post it, and it’s still just as beautiful as when I first found it. It’s a submission for the second edition of Jacob Covey’s Beasts.

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