With Spain’s World Cup win yes­ter­day (and let us not for­get Paul the octo­pus too), I found it fit­ting that one of today’s fea­tured artist hail from the vic­to­ri­ous coun­try. Valero Doval is an artist and illus­tra­tor based out of Spain, and uses col­lage and mixed media to con­vey his lan­guage and play­ful­ness.

Valero uses col­lage to marry both orig­i­nal draw­ings with old pho­tographs. His per­sonal work seems to like to poke fun at the con­ven­tions of the past, and his appli­ca­tion of draw­ing and shape are Dada-esque in its approach; the play against the art of the past and those sen­si­bil­i­ties to make them some­what silly.

The con­struc­tion of Valero’s work is very care­ful. His com­po­si­tions are not overly com­pli­cated or clut­tered, and he seems to place an impor­tance on a lim­ited color palette that rides a line between feel­ing antiqued and splashes of modernity.

All images via his web­site.