animal art

Don't you just love wool-felt art? It is actually done by knitting wool fibers into shapes with special needles. 

The recent creation getting hype in Japan is a "cat frames" by local artist, Fujitasatomi's (@fujita_satomi).
Scroll down to see what Fujita is doing with these ordinary-looking wool-felt fabric and eye parts…

With a closer look, you can see that each cat has a different facial expression.

How cute are they?!

Paper cut artists, nayan shrimali and vaishali chudasama, have created a series of intricately cut 2.5D birds. 

Each bird is made by cutting out different layers on paper and then painting on details, like feathers or coloring, using watercolors. The pieces are then hand-assembled to give a final 2.5-dimensional look, creating the illusion of three-dimensionality. 

Each artwork takes between 4-6 hours to finish.

We are so impressed! 

Photographer duo, Kelly Pratt Kreidich and Ian Kreidich, have been specializing for years in photographing professional dancers. 

Then, a few years ago, they hit upon a new idea and started photographing the same dancers but this time, with their loving dogs. 

100 dogs and dancers later, their new photo series "Dancers & Dogs" is a full-length art book, available now for your viewing pleasure.

On their home page, the talented duo wrote: "One day, I (Kelly) had a strange idea: "What if we did pictures of dancers, with dogs." Ian looked at me like I was crazy. On paper, it was strange and didn't make sense. Why dancers and dogs? But I told Ian to just "Go with it." I had a vision. Our first duo was Ericka and Baxter, an English Bulldog, who belongs to a friend. We captured just the results we were hoping for – clean and elegant pictures, that are sweet, light-hearted and funny. Ballet is often seen as stuffy or unapproachable, and we feel like this project helps people see the lighter side of dancers. We have learned a lot during this process. We were not animal photographers when we started out! But along the way we have learned how to work on a dog's level, how to get dogs to do certain actions, what kind of dogs are even right for this project".

For more: Instagram / Facebook

Topiary is a horticultural practice of clipping shrubs, foliage and twigs of trees to form fanciful or geometric shapes. It's an art of creating living sculptures.

Humans have been clipping trees and shrubs into ornamental shapes since at least ancient Rome.

While the groomed plants from millennia ago are no longer around, of course, there are topiary scenes today that date back a few hundred years. For that and more, check out these whimsical gardens in surprising animal shapes. 

David Zinn proves he's a master of 3D sidewalk art with these funny and imaginative chalk drawings. 

Featured below are some of his best works, but if you really would like to support his work, get his book on Amazon. 

Ryan and Lucy Berkley are illustrators couple from Portland, Oregon, who are creating comic-book-inspired art and prints using mainly markers and colored pencils.  

One of their best-known projects is the "Animals in Suits" series where they tackle surreal subject matter in a very friendly way.

For more: Berkley illustrations / Instagram

The Italian yarn artist, Lindadi of Le Creazioni Di Lindadi, is known for her beautiful detailed crocheted art.

Recently, she has created an incredibly detailed aquarium featuring underwater creatures all made out of crocheted yarn, including various fish, a pink jellyfish, a blue octopus, orange coral, a tiny green turtle, several pale seahorses, two pink crabs, and green seagrass.

For more of Lindadi's art: Instagram / Facebook 

Japanese artist, Yuko Sakuda of yucoco cafe packs all the cuteness in this world into one strap-sized miniature of cats, hedgehogs, and Shiba Inu that any animal lover would be dying to have as a phone strap. 

But the most popular item in his collection is a series of cats that look as if they are being picked up by the scruff of their necks. Awww! 

The series became so popular in Japan that it's been turned into actual capsule toys. 

Check out some of his creations.  

Isa is a talented illustrator from the Netherlands who came up with this awesome idea he refers to as pet disneyfication. 

That means you can send him a photo of your pet and he will illustrate it in an iconic Disney style.

What could be more magical than that? 

Unfortunately, commissions are closed for the next months due to the massive demand. 

In the meantime, enjoy some of his creations on Instagram.

Rako Inoue is a Canadian artist who was born in Tokyo and moved to Montreal, Canada, when he was 9 years old. On his website, he describes himself as "very much influenced by both cultures so that folding origamis and painting graffiti never felt too disconnected from each other". Being curious by nature, he was inspired by the traditional Japanese art of Ikebana - creating unique flower arrangements. Raku has a beautiful garden at his home and every day, according to the different seasons, he takes what nature offers him and creates colorful sculptures of animals from flowers, stems and leaves.     

Pico is a talented designer from Japan who is obsessed with cats. Her last creation is definitely one of her best ones - a life-like super realistic cat backpack which she carefully hand sews. The paw-some backpack consists of 78 parts and the final result is just a big WOW! Check out her Instagram and Twitter pages. 

If you love cats and love some Lego fun, you really need to check out these paw-some DIY kits by Jecka company. They have it all- black & white cats, calico cats, tuxedo cats, orange tabby cats...anything you like and dream of.   

JEKCA company believes everyone has a unique sense of creativity deeply embedded within each one of us. The company is aimed at unleashing this talent by helping you build useful and interesting items using simple techniques and basic building block units. so, you can now create your dream cat model in the easiest way possible. Check out their website for all the dozens of options. 

What's better than a cute cat photo? a tiny sculpture of that same photo! 

We have found this adorable twitter page by a Japanese artist who turns funny animal photos into mini-sculptures. We have picked the funniest cat sculptures for your viewing pleasure.   

After five nights of patiently waiting, photographer Sam Rowley has managed to capture a mesmerizing photo of two mice fighting on a London Tube platform and won the London Natural History Museum's annual photography competition, beating out over 40,000 others for the People's Choice award. 

Ramzy Masri is a talented graphic designer from NY who creates glowing artwork using rainbow colors as a major inspiration. He likes to inject glowing colors to ordinary photos of landscapes, people, food and of curse, animals and make them so much more fun. Here are some of his colorful animal creations.