Boar Smithfield Cost of paintings: $ 50-150

 In 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 led it to brush over the paper. Martin says that the favorite color of her pet - blue, he often chooses brush it with a blue dye (scientists, however, argue that the pigs do not distinguish colors). Capable of pig quickly managed to gain 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 the limelight. In 2003, Smithfield was diagnosed with cancer of the nose - or, in his case, cancer snout. The artist had to go through chemotherapy and several operations. The disease could win, and now Fran Martin jokingly compares your pet with Vincent Van Gogh: he lost part of the ear, and Smithfield - part of the snout.

 Aardvark Stewie Cost of paintings: not sold to a resident of Oregon, Angela Goodwin took anteater Styui from a shelter for abandoned animals. In her house by the time he lived another 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: started to open closets and cabinets, desk drawers to get in and ride on the refrigerator door. Angela trained anteater simple trick 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 his 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. " Compared with other animal paintings, art work Styui look amateurish. However, we can exclude the possibility that over time, talent anteater could be developed. Fans of this Styui did not know: in 2008 Styui died of autoimmune disease.
 Congo the chimpanzee paintings Cost: $ 900-8500 chimpanzee Congo - perhaps the most famous artist from the animal world. In 2005, Bonhams auction three of his paintings were sold in total for £ 14,400. And although this triumph of the Congo itself is not found - he died of tuberculosis at age 10 in 1964 - the glory found him still alive. Among the admirers of the talented artists chimpanzees were Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. Creativity Congo found a British zoologist Desmond Morris. He first proposed the chimpanzee pencil and paper. It soon turned out that the Congo is able to draw a circle, and even has basic composition. With the colors of the Congo became friends immediately: 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, do not stand up for its boundary. He seemed keenly aware of when you need to make a last touch, and complete work on the next picture. first exhibition took place in Congo in 1957 and aroused great public interest. During his lifetime, the chimpanzee has created over 400 paintings and drawings, and in recent years, he was so addicted to drawing that he could arrange a real tantrum, when Morris was carrying a brush and paint.
 Asian elephants (Thailand) The cost of pictures: 200-12000 $ project for the development of creativity and the protection of Asian elephants (AEACP, The Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project) was launched in the late 1990s. At its source was a creative team of "Komar and Melamid» (Komar & Melamid). Russian-born American artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid 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, as well as in Sri Lanka. Elephants live in a spacious camp, located usually in the woods or in the immediate vicinity. They prefer different styles of painting, one creates abstract paintings, one can fairly reliably depict a tree or a bouquet of flowers and some of the strength to write self-portrait. Animals even bring to the open air, and learn to paint from nature. 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.
 Ocelot Pedfut Pedfut - a favorite of visitors to the zoo in Phoenix, Arizona. Inhabitant of the tropical forests of Latin America, the ocelot is considered a rare species, and not everyone can boast of 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 a papyrus prints cat paw. 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 genres, which they prefer. The book also contains brief biographies of artists, purring. Pedfuta not among them, but it does not prevent him to please fans of new masterpieces and selling them on online auctions.
 Mustang Choya Cost of paintings: $ 000 900-10 Choya Mustang got its name in honor of one of the varieties of cactus. On his own ranch cowboy methods were trained hard, and when Choya bought a dancer Renee Chambers, he was badly injured, both physically and psychologically. Rene won the trust of a few years bronco, and eventually he began to walk on her heels. April 29, 2004, Rene painted fence Choyya as always by my side. The woman suddenly remembered that her pet likes to take in the teeth of different subjects. She decided to see what would happen if one of these items would be a brush. Rene nailed to the fence a piece of paper, dipped a brush into the paint and lifted her face to the Choyi. Thus began the career of bronco-artist whose work has been exhibited and acquired by collectors in America and far beyond. Painting became Choyi not only 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 it taught him, and quite spontaneously.
 Koopa turtle paintings cost $ 125-200 owner 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 work of your pet, and for a few months out of the ordinary land tortoise Koopa has become an internationally known artist. In each of the 50 states of America 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, was transferred to the organizations that are engaged in saving the turtles. Draw Coupe helped hostess. Kira Ayn Varzedzhi squeezed from a tube on a sheet of construction paper paint that smeared belly crawling Koopa. Thus he created the original fabric, 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" over 800 paintings: the creation of each of them he took an average of about 20 minutes.
 Chimpanzees Chita Cost of paintings: from $ 135 Age Cheats - the oldest chimp in the world - have passed for 75 years. It is an old, not old in spite of the "woman's" name, Chita - male. First, his name was Dzhiggzom and "feminine," a nickname he got after it in the 1930-1940-e has played in several movies of Tarzan of his faithful friend - a monkey Chita. The long acting career ended in Chita in 1967. After retiring on a pension, the chimpanzee has found refuge in a villa Dan Vestafalya in Palm Springs (California) - a kind of retirement home for primates, which in the past have been 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 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 the hamburgers and Coca-Cola, as well as to smoke cigars. Several years ago, the eminent primate found diabetes mellitus, and now Dan Westphal keeps him on a strict diet.
 Bottlenose Argasi, Gabija and Gloria Price of paintings: $ 40-3000 Dolphins are among the most intellectually developed of the family of mammals. Many of them are prone to creative activity, so the dolphins-artists - are not uncommon, and some achieve great success on a beautiful field. Such as the bottlenose dolphin Argasi, Gloria and Gabija - the inhabitants of the Dolphinarium in the Sea Museum in Klaipeda, Lithuania. draw dolphins helps the coach, he holds a sheet 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 every artist has a special technique, and the viewer can easily recognize, whose authorship belongs to this or that picture. Argasi, leader of the pack, prefers bright colors and writes a broad, confident strokes. Drawings of Gloria - the air, and graceful, and paintings Gabii different special skill and agility. Work dolphin trio were represented at the exhibition "Messages of Water", which was held in 2010 at the Museum of the World Ocean in Kaliningrad, and still they are periodically put up for sale in the charity auction. In Klaipeda, dolphins-artists can be found in Ufa and dolphinariums Gurzuf and the island of Key Largo dolphin (California) even offers visitors for $ 125 to participate in a session of painting.
 Jack Russell Terrier Tillamook Cheddar Cost of paintings: $ 1000-2150 Jack Russell Terrier Tillamook Cheddar, or simply Tilley, could compete with the 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 came out biographical book, which was described by Tilly's career. The author - a writer F. Bowman Hastie III, part-owner of Tilly. He himself, however, prefers to call himself not master and assistant. Without an assistant Tillie does not do: the masterpieces she "writes" on special canvases. To prepare a canvas, it is necessary to fix on a sheet of watercolor paper sheet of carbon paper and wrap the workpiece with a protective film. Protective film is necessary in order to not destroy Tilly's picture in the process of creation: it does not use brushes - only the claws and teeth. The dog scratches and bites the top layer of the workpiece - blueprint, leaving fingerprints on the bottom layer - watercolor paper. So Tilley creates a sort of lithographs, the cost of which can reach several thousand dollars. In 2005 the artist quadrupedal 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 of age.