Alebrijes are the brightly colored Mexican sculptures of fantastical creatures. The first alebrijes were created by an artist, Pedro Linares. Back in the 1930s, Linares was ill with a high fever and while he was in bed, unconscious, he dreamt of a strange place resembling a magic forest. There, he saw trees, animals, rocks, clouds that suddenly turned into strange kinds of animals.
Here is my sketch in color of one of the Alebrijes in view during the Day of the Dead festival ...
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