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Animals Who Paint

Humans have always expressed and displayed their artistic talents, but what if we tell you that animals can paint too? Check out these few that create art and paint. With their beaks, trumpets, lips or paws, these animals are known for their impressive talent.

Tiger

Imagine if an animal could show you what it sees, thinks, and feels. Crazy thought, right?

Each painting takes an animal a little over four hours to produce, including snack breaks and time off to walk around the park and eat bananas, one of their favorite treats. The animals are never forced to paint; when they lose interest, they come back later to begin again.

SUDA

World-Famous Painting Elephant

Suda is a 15 year old elephant who has been painting for 10 years. She is responsible for raising thousands of baht for an elephant hospital. She is a very gentle lady and she loves to paint and is very precise with all her paintings. Suda paints art with trees, animals, mountains, blue skies, and other subject matter beautifully rendered on canvas.

METRO METEOR

An Emerging Artist

Ruby

Painting saved Metro's life. He was taught to hold a paintbrush on a whim, as something that would keep him active and a way to spend my remaining time with him. Metro lived long after his expiration date and defied expectations.

PIGCASSO

The pig who paints!

Ruby

The little swine’s story became well known after was rescued from a slaughterhouse. She was saved from extinction from a South African ‘farm’. She loves to eat, sleep, but mostly to paint. And all her creations are used to save more farm animals from being slaughtered.

DOGVINCI

The Famous Dog Painter

Suda

The beret-wearing black Labrador retriever, known as "Dagger II aka DogVinci," lives with his owner in New York and has garnered fans on Facebook for his impressive painting skills.

ANTONIO

An Emerging Artist

Ruby

Antonio the steer is a mamma’s boy and a major foodie. Some of his favorite foods are papaya and banana, and he often sticks his tongue out for treats. His love for eating propelled him into becoming the world’s first painting cow, and people have remarked that he’s smarter than most dogs they know!

CONGO

Monkey See, Monkey Do!

Ruby

Congo’s ability to make a controlled abstract pattern and then to vary it in different ways meant that inside the ape brain there was already an aesthetic sense Watching him paint was like witnessing the birth of art.

Author: Danielle Freedman   |   Typography Used: Gotham    |   Image Credits: Unpslash.com