Animal heads

Visual Texture

Zoo portraits is a creative and educational project based on the animal kingdom with three areas deriving from it: art, education & awareness.

This is the second in the planned series of display masks/wall art/? - I haven't quite figured out what to call them yet (suggestions welcome, as always).

Because more people will look at these beautiful pictures if we give them a listicle-type headline

In 2002 Matthew Grabelsky graduated from Rice University with a BA in Art and Art History and a BS in Astrophysics. "Science taught me how to observe the world, and art has allowed me to express my relationship to it. Since 2006, I have focused on creating paintings that combine the physical world that people see every day with imagery from mythology and dreams," he wrote on his Saatchi Art profile.

Have you ever seen an elephant bird? Or a dog squirrel? Just think... if you ever tire of your pet the way it is, you can use photoshop to manipulate it into anything you want. If only this was possible irl.

Learn how to make adorable paper mache animal heads for cruelty-free taxidermy at its most adorable. Follow our easy tutorial for crafty success

Letterboxd GoodReads ask Weird Fiction and Cosmic Horror; Natural and Folk Horror; Cult films and Surrealism; Literary Horror; random oddness and bookish nerdery—and monsters of all kinds * Blacklist the word "rambling" if you don't want conversations on your dash.* Keep it weird, everybody.

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which,” George Orwell wrote in his thought-provoking, classic piece of literature Animal Farm. When it comes to qualities of character, we often compare ourselves as well as other people with animals. Stubborn as a mule, greedy as a pig, we say.

In 2002 Matthew Grabelsky graduated from Rice University with a BA in Art and Art History and a BS in Astrophysics. Science taught me how to observe the world, and art has allowed me to express my relationship to it. Since 2006, I have focused on creating paintings that combine the physical world that people see every day with imagery from mythology and dreams, he wrote on his Saatchi Art profile.