After seeing HelloVon's illustrations, we were very inspired and decided that we should get a set for our own home. Nice variety and different styles offer something for everyone, but the collection that we fell in love with are his animal drawings.
In general they are a fairly realistic representation of our animal kingdom, but in almost everyone of them there is something unexpected. His recent work of birds is absolutely amazing. Originally done as part of an installation called Migration that started in London and ended in New York.
Check out more of his work after the jump:
Von is a UK-based artist that established his studio, HelloVon in 2006. Since then he has done some amazing work for clients like Nike, American Express, The New York Times, and many more. He has also had solo shows in Paris, London and New York.
The birds of his Migration exhibition were originally drawn on watercolor paper and then blown up to billboard size. The show was flown from city to city "inheriting the migrational nature of its content." Unfortunately it ended in October, but prints and some of the original art are available for purchase on HelloVon's website.
You can check out more of HelloVon's art by going to his flickr site.
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now, if the lion were printed on black velvet, we'd have a deal...
These are horrible. But not in a good way. Sorry.
I definitely have a preference when it comes to subject matter--the birds. Overall, I think he's extremely talented.
Why do the big cats look like they've been stabbed in the eye?
These are terrible....
These pictures aren't even bad.
However, in fairness, they have to be placed in some context in order to be fairly judged. AT should have photographed an interior with framed samples.
"How easy it is for a painter to lose a painting. He paints and paints, works on a canvas for months, and then, one day, he loses it. Loses the structure, loses the sense of it. You lose the painting.
I remembered asking my kids' second-grade teacher: 'Why are all your students geniuses?' Look at the first grade - blotches of green and black. The third grade - camouflage. But your grade, the second grade... Matisses, every one. You've made my child a Matisse.
Let me study with you. Let me into the second grade. What is your secret?
'I don't have any secret. I just know when to take their drawings away from them.'"
- Flan Kittredge, Six Degrees of Separation
Well said Flan Kittredge.