Hopefully In A Few Weeks Time,

the beaches of Europe will be open,

 and beach goers will be able to enjoy the sun, sea and sand, and also if you are lucky the sand sculptures of Andoni Bastarrika, who is a multi-media artist from Spain’s Basque Country, photographs Andoni Bastarrika/Facebook,

 Bastarrika has been entertaining beach-goers in his native Basque Country region for almost a decade now,

 the Basque artist reportedly started experimenting with sand sculptures in 2010, as a way of entertaining children when going to the beach. The feedback was so positive that he started focusing on this newly discovered art form more, developing his own techniques as he progressed. Before he knew it, he had made a name for himself as a sand sculptor and even supplementing his summer income,

 Bastarrika mostly uses his own hands to shape sand sculptures, but when it comes to fine details, he uses simple tools like a brush, small sticks and toothpicks, to add another layer of realism, the artist sometimes uses various accessories, like the horns and hooves on his now famous bull sculpture, 

  

 and here is the good news, apart from wowing beach-goers with his realistic-looking sculptures, Andoni Bastarrika also hosts workshops where he teaches others the secrets of sand sculpting, for more of Andoni’s sand sculptures, 

check out his Instagram and Facebook pages, what a great way to spend a day at the beach, leaning how to sand sculpture.