Final piece- Animal attack

This was my outcome for my second final piece. It is a tiger/ eagle hybrid and a crab/ snake hybrid. It is a freeze frame of an attack. I used painting and collage for this piece. Its showing how animals will develop through time, changing constantly to adapt.

Idea Development – Final piece 2- Painting

Now its time to think about my second final piece. I still want to look into the theme of animals development in the future. Animals are constantly changing to adapt their habitat and to help protect from predators. I think I would like my final piece to be based n animals in the future how they have changed to deal with changing aspects like their prey/predators/environment.

Final piece- Insects Board

Here is the full final piece-

Final Piece- Insects

This is my first final piece. I thought it would be a good idea to display them like how taxidermists display insects, with the pins in. Doing this shows that they are real futuristic insects that someone has collected in the future. These are the individual insects-

Idea Development – Final piece 1- Collage

I have to start thinking now of my final pieces, I would like to do both using different mediums, paint and collage.

For my first final piece I would like to use collage. I still quiet like the idea I had back near the beginning of the project, looking at insect development; how they were in prehistoric times and how they have developed through time up til now. From my own knowledge and research, I believe that insects are the animal that develops most throughout time, they change size, shape,colour. Insects are among the oldest creatures on the planet, and will probably be the last things on the planet!

I would like to create new insects for my final piece, futuristic new insects. I will collage the new insects out of different parts of insects, like hybrid insects.

Martin Wittfooth

This is a painting by Martin Wittfooth that really caught my eye, it is called Forest Clearing. It is a hybrid of a deer and bear. I like it because it is painted realistically.

Real hybrid animals

After doing some research, I found that there are some genuine, REAL animal hybrids in the world today!

• Mule, a cross of female horse and a male donkey
• Hinny  a cross between a female donkey and a male horse. Mule and hinny are examples of reciprocal hybrids
• Zeedonk or Zonkey, a zebra/donkey cross.
• Zorse, a zebra/horse cross
• Zony or Zetland, a zebra/pony cross
• Beefalo, a cross of an American Bison and a domestic cow.
• Ursid hybrids such as the grizzly polar bear hybrid occur between black bears, brown bears, and polar bears.
• Savannah cats are the hybrid cross between an African serval cats and a domestic cat
• Hybrids between black and white rhinoceroses have been recognized.
• Cama, a cross between a camel and a llama.
• Wholphin,  a fertile but very rare cross between a killer whale and a bottlenose dolphin.

Lion and Tiger hybrid

Todau I have got inspiration from Jaume Montserrat’s paintings, in particular the Leopard and Tiger hybrid due to the realism that it could happen in the future! I wanted to create my own realistic future big cat by splicing together a lion and a tiger-

Deer and owl hybrid

Today I painted a deer and owl hybrid animal-

Jaume Montserrat

While on a flight home the Barcelona based illustrator dreamt he was on a Noah’s Ark-like island and “there was only one animal from each specimen. All of them were empty, asexual and immortal. They didn’t need to hunt, nor were they scared of being hunted – so there was a perfect symbiosis.” And thus came the inspiration for his series “Emptyland,” a surreal representation of unraveling animals often depicted as being intertwined with each other. At first glance the drawings are a little creepy, but upon closer observation there’s actually something very peaceful about them. 

Jaume creates spliced together animals to create a new animal breed-

This is my favorite work by the artist, this is because it is a possible real outcome, two big cats cross breeding and creating a new breed of big cat.