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I absolutely, positively love puns and word-play. As does one of my illustrator friends, Catherine. One day Catherine sent me a text saying "Vincent van Gopher. Make it happen." I could not refuse this order. Catherine later told me that she got the idea from an art history student of hers who misspelled Vincent van Gogh as Vincent van Goph.

As I sketched ideas on how to go about drawing van Gopher, many more artist-animal pun combinations came to mind. I decided to make the illustrations based on either a self-portrait of the artist, one of their artworks, or the artists' art-making techniques. Each illustration is hand-drawn with pen and ink on paper, which is then scanned and digitally colored.

These are the original 10 illustrations for the Famous Animals in Art History series and I have since branched out from visual artists to include musicians and authors. This is an on-going project and I have plans to make many more!

More info: nanuillustration.com

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JudieKopfman
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Krishna, you made me laugh and smile at the same time. Hope to see more of your treasured works of art down the road. Judie

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

YES! Thanks so much for your kind words. Stay tuned, more illustrations coming in the future :)

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Lynne Kohler
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love this! I wish you would make it into a book. Perhaps you could show a the original and then on the next page show the animal. It would make learning art history fun and easy for kids! It would be a great cross-curriculum tool for art, science, and English.

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