Elephants, chimps, dogs, and other makers of non-human species can earn thousands of dollars of his paintings.

Pictures, written by our smaller brethren, are in great demand. Collectors give them hundreds of thousands of dollars, the big picture willingly spend large-scale exhibitions and Bobby Van Mau Gogov.

The following 10 artists who have not kept a brush in his hand, and the leg or in the teeth.




1. Chimpanzees of the Congo.The cost of painting: $ 900-8500Chimpanzees of the Congo - perhaps the most famous artist of the animal world. In 2005, Bonhams auction his three paintings were sold for a total of £ 14 400. And although this triumph of the Congo itself is not found - he died of tuberculosis at age 10 in 1964 - found him fame during his lifetime. Among the admirers of the talented artists chimpanzees were Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro.
Creativity of the Congo has found a British zoologist Desmond Morris. He first proposed the chimpanzee pencil and paper. It soon turned out that the Congo could draw a circle and even owns the basics of composition. With the colors of the Congo became friends immediately: at first he just sprayed them on paper. But two years later, resistance training, he learned how to hold a brush and blend colors. Congo drew exclusively within the canvas, not stood up for its boundary. He seemed keenly aware of when you need to make a last touch and complete the next picture.
The first exhibition took place in Congo in 1957 and aroused great public interest. During his lifetime, the chimpanzee has created more than 400 paintings and drawings, and in recent years he took to painting, he could make a real tantrum, when Morris was carrying a brush and paint.

2. Asian elephants (Thailand)The cost of painting: $ 200-12000The project is to develop creativity and protect Asian elephants (AEACP, The Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project) was launched in late 1990. At its source was a creative team of "Komar and Melamid» (Komar & Melamid). American artists of Russian origin, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid have developed a unique system of training the elephants painting and went to Thailand to give the animals a new job, remaining out of work after the introduction of restrictions on deforestation.
AEACP expanded rapidly: today its divisions exist not only in Thailand but also in Indonesia and Cambodia, and Sri Lanka. Elephants live in spacious camps, usually in the woods or in the immediate vicinity. They prefer different styles of painting, one creates abstract paintings, one can fairly accurately depict a tree or a bouquet of flowers and some of the strength to write a self-portrait. Animals derive even in the open air and learn to draw from life. Work elephant-artists can be purchased through the official website of the project. Along with a picture of the buyer receives a certificate of authenticity and biographical information about the author of the work.

3. Ocelot Pedfut.Pedfut - a favorite of visitors to the zoo in Phoenix, Arizona. Inhabitant of tropical forests in Latin America, the ocelot is considered a rare species, and not everyone can boast such a zoo exhibit. A unique Pedfut twice: he also has the talent of the painter, who ministers opened it in 2004. Then this cat just went to the zoo and often bored. To entertain him, rangers decided to nail to the wall enclosure canvas and make it a few coats of paint. Ocelot soon became interested in the canvas and began to rub on his neck, head, and then the whole body. This technique is among the cat-artists - a rarity: they usually use the front legs.
It is believed that domestic cats are more prone to painting than wild. Some people believe that this phenomenon originated in Ancient Egypt: 90 years of the twentieth century, was allegedly found burial, which contained the papyri with cat paw prints. In 1994 he even published a book titled "Why cats paint?": The authors describe a sense of humor that encourages pets to paint, describe the basic techniques and styles they prefer. The book also contains brief biographies of the artists, purring. Pedfuta among them, but it does not prevent him to please fans of new masterpieces and selling them at online auctions.

4. Mustang ChoyaThe cost of painting: $ 000 900-10Choya Mustang got its name in honor of one of the varieties of cactus. At home his ranch cowboy methods were trained hard, and when Choya bought dancer Rene Chambers, he was badly injured, both physically and psychologically. Rene won the confidence of a few years the mustang, and eventually he began to walk on her heels.
April 29, 2004, Rene painted fence, as Choyya was always there. The woman suddenly remembered that her pet likes to take his teeth in various subjects. She decided to see what would happen if one of these items will brush. Rene nailed to fence a piece of paper, dipped a brush into the paint and held it toward the muzzle Choyi. Thus began a career bronco-artist whose work has been exhibited and acquired by collectors in America and far beyond. Painting was not just for Choyi main hobby, but a kind of therapy: a horse fully recovered from the effects of ill-treatment. Moreover, as the Italian scientist Danilo Mainardi, Choya creates his paintings, not because he taught it, and quite spontaneously.

5. Koopa turtle
The cost of painting: $ 125-200
The owner of the turtle named Koopa - an eccentric artist from the U.S. Kira Ayn Varzedzhi who writes his pictures topless. One day it occurred to her to attach to the creativity of your pet, and in a few months out of the ordinary land tortoise Koopa has turned into a world-renowned artist. In each of America's 50 states have at least one picture of the Kupa, his work went to Canada and Australia, Germany and Great Britain, Italy and the Netherlands, Belgium and Bahrain. Part of the proceeds from their sale were transferred to organizations involved in saving the turtles.

Helped draw Coupe owner. Kira Ayn Varzedzhi squeezed from a tube on a sheet of construction paper paint that smeared belly crawling Koopa. Thus he created original paintings, which can be attributed entirely to the school of abstract expressionism, and Cyrus invented for them sounding name - "Energy", "Symphony", "Lost in Translation." For 5 years Koopa "wrote" more than 800 paintings: the creation of each of them he took an average of about 20 minutes.

6. Chimpanzees ChitaThe cost of painting: from $ 135Age Cheats - the oldest chimp in the world - already over 75 years. It is old, but not old in spite of the "feminine" name, Chita - a male. At first it was called Dzhiggzom and "feminine" a nickname he got after a 1930-1940-e played in several movies about Tarzan his faithful friend - a monkey Chita. The long acting career ended in Chita in 1967. After retiring on a pension, a chimpanzee found refuge in a villa Dan Vestafalya in Palm Springs (California) - a kind of retirement home for primates, which in the past were the stars of show business. Keep this private reserve to help Vestafalyu revenues pictures of Chita and his grandson Jeter. Chita Works exhibited at the National Museum in London, and in 2008 he published his "avtorbiografiya" entitled "I read." The name of this author on the cover was not specified: Guardian Cheats jokingly say that such a talented monkey could easily cope with writing a book on their own.
During his long life of Chita had become addicted not only to draw, but also for hamburgers with Coca-Cola, as well as to smoking cigars. Several years ago, the eminent primate found diabetes mellitus, and now Dan Westphal keeps him on a strict diet.

7. Bottlenose Argasi, Gabija and GloriaThe cost of painting: $ 40-3000Dolphins are among the most intellectually developed of the family of mammals. Many of them are inclined to creative work, so dolphins-artists - not uncommon, and some achieve great success for a beautiful career. Such as the bottlenose dolphin Argasi, Gloria and Gabija - the inhabitants of the dolphinarium at Sea Museum in Klaipeda, Lithuania.
Draw a dolphin trainer helps: he holds a piece of paper on a solid substrate and the palette. But the Dolphins choose the paint color on their own. Clenched in his teeth brush, they do it chaotic brushstrokes. And each artist has a special technique, and the viewer can easily recognize, whose authorship belongs to this or that picture. Argasi, leader of the pack, prefer bright colors, and writes a broad, confident strokes. Drawings of Gloria - air and graceful, and paintings Gabii different special skill and agility. Dolphin trio work were presented at the "Message of Water", which was held in 2010 at the Museum of the World Ocean in Kaliningrad, and yet they are periodically put up for sale in charity auctions.
In addition to Klaipeda, dolphins-artists can be found in Ufa and dolphinariums Gurzuf and dolphinarium Island Key Largo (California) even offers visitors for $ 125 to participate in a session of painting.

8. Jack Russell Terrier Tillamook CheddarThe cost of painting: $ 1000-2150Jack Russell Terrier Tillamook Cheddar, or simply Tilly, it can compete with two-legged artists. On account of Tilly - 20 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. She repeatedly became the guest of the popular TV show, and articles about it appeared in the pages of such prestigious publications as Esquire and The Guardian. In 2006, even went a biographical book, which was described by Tilly career. Its author - author F. Bowman Hastie III, part-owner of Tilly. He himself, however, prefers to call himself not master and assistant. Without an assistant Tilly really can not do: the masterpieces she "writes" on special canvas. To prepare a canvas, must be secured to a sheet of watercolor paper sheet of carbon paper and wrap the workpiece with a protective film. The protective film is required in order to not destroy Tilly's picture in the making: it does not use a brush - just the claws and teeth. The dog scratches and bites the top layer of the workpiece - blueprint, leaving fingerprints on the bottom layer - watercolor paper. Thus Tilly creates something like lithographs, whose value can reach several thousand dollars.
In 2005, the four-artist whelp, but none of the six offspring of her talent is not inherited. Bowman Hastie also argues that the very desire for painting Tilley woke up early as six months old.

9. Boar SmithfieldThe cost of painting: $ 50-150In his native Richmond (Virginia), Smithfield pig was given the nickname Pig-casso - from the English «pig» and the names of Picasso. Mistress grunting painter Fran Martin quickly managed to teach a pig to keep the curious at the mouth and a brush to drive it on paper. Martin says that her favorite color pet - blue, he often chooses a brush with blue paint it (scientists, however, argue that the pigs do not distinguish between colors.) Capable of quickly pig has gained popularity in the country. Smithfield is not just become a guest of honor at major trade fairs and various charity events, he was even invited to the Oprah Winfrey show. Fran Martin of Smithfield prudently taught to smile and pose for the camera. Animal willingly speaks to the audience and enjoying everyone's attention.
In 2003, Smithfield was diagnosed with cancer of the nose - or, in the case of cancer, Piglet. The artist had to go through chemotherapy and several operations. The disease was able to win, and now Fran Martin jokingly compares his pet with Vincent Van Gogh: he lost part of the ear, and Smithfield - part of Piglet.

10. Aardvark Stewie
The cost of pictures: not sold
A resident of Oregon, Angela Goodwin took anteater Styui of a shelter for abandoned animals. In her house by the time he lived one anteater - a female named Pua. Unlike Styui, who was born in Florida, Pua came to America from Guyana.

Styui quickly mastered the new place of residence: he started to open closets and cabinets, desk drawers to climb in and ride on the refrigerator door. Angela trained anteater simple trick is to stand and walk on their hind legs, waving in front of a sign of farewell, kissing and even eat with a spoon. Following the spoon into the clutches of Styui took a brush. Then Angela Goodwin wrote in her blog: "I very much hope that he will enjoy the drawing. It is necessary that he began to use his intelligence for something other than pranks. "

In comparison with the paintings of other artists of the animal Styui look amateurish. However, we can exclude the possibility that eventually talent anteater could be developed. Fans of this Styui did not know: in 2008, died of Styui autoimmune disease ..

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