Fantastical creatures spring to life out of clay
Fantastical creatures spring to life out of clay
Mary Jo DiLonardo
In ‘Red Fox,’ you can see such intricate details in the animal’s clay fur. (Photo: Evgeny Hontor)
In a small village in the Krasnodar region of Russia, artist Evgeny Hontor creates amazingly detailed clay sculptures. Some are mythical creatures; others are more familiar animals that look as if they could have darted out of a fairy tale forest.
Many of the colorful beasts are inspired by Hontor’s imagination; some are an ode to the movies and TV shows he adores. Read more.