Chimp Sketch of the week #40

Equality and Individually Primate Paint Together

In preparation for the opening of my show tomorrow I have made this short film. Incase your not already aware based on my months of posting on the subject tomorrow in Florida my gallery show Equality and Individually opens. This is a group art show with myself and a group of chimps that live in a sanctuary in Florida. It includes five collaborative paintings that I did with the chimps and the show is designed to raise money and awareness for chimps that spent there lives in cages at medical laboratories and are now living a free life in sanctuary. This show has been a year in the making and it opens tomorrow I am so proud and thankful for my new friends at Save the chimps

Chimp Sketch of the Week # 39

Melody

This is a film showing the creation of a portrait of Melody a chimp that lives in a chimpanzee sanctuary called Save The Chimps in Florida. This a collaborative painting done with a chimp named Cheetah another resident at Save The Chimps and will be on display at gallery 14 in Vero Beach Fl in May. 

Chimp Sketch of the Week #38

The Chimp Painter

Below is a short film that talks about my newest project. A series of collaborative art works by myself, and a group of Chimpanzees that live in Sanctuary in Florida

Chimp Sketch of the week #37

Venus

Another Sketch in anticipation of my show with the chimps this May

Chimp Sketch of the Week #36

Dorothy

Dorothy was a 13 year old chimp that recently passed she lived most of her life in a laboratory but luckily was able to live a very small part of her life in sanctuary.

Dorothy was born on the first day of spring in 1998 at The Coulston Foundation in Alamogordo, NM.  Coulston loaned Dorothy to another laboratory when she was very young. After Save the Chimps took over The Coulston Foundation, they were able to secure her return. Dorothy made the journey to Florida on her 13th birthday.

To find out more about Dorothy and make a donation in her honor to help other chimps in need visit Here 

The portrait of Dorothy below will be available for purchase soon. This portrait along with many others, including some done in collaboration with chimps were created to raise money and awareness for chimps in sanitary and laboratories around North America. I will be having a joint art show with the chimps in Florida this May. More on that soon…

Chimp Sketch of the Week #34

Anna

Painted in watercolor another sketch for my Show in May in Florida more on that soon

Chimp Sketch of the Week #33

Pele

This is a sketch of  Pele a beautiful resident of Save The Chimps In Florida. it is drawn in charcoal with a little white chalk for highlights. 

Chimp Sketch of the week #32

Kallie

This is another one I did for Save the Chimps I will be posting sketches of many of the Residents of Save the chimps in the next few months as I will be doing a gallery show with them this spring and I am currently working on sketches for that show.

Chimp Sketch of the week #31

Thoto RIP

This sketch is another one I recently painted of a resident at SAVE THE CHIMPS. Thoto was a circus chimp which had all his teeth pulled out as a measure of protection for his handlers afraid he might bite them. Thoto was eventually sold into medical research and forced to live in a cage. I instantly fell in love with his face when I saw his picture and it inspired me to paint him. This beautiful chimp is a perfect example of the great work that Save the chimps do because poor Thoto was forced through most of his life as an entertainer and lab experiment but thanks to save the chimps he was able to live the last ten tears of his life as a chimp.

For a full obituary of Thoto please go HERE and please consider donating some money in his honor.

Meet Thoto in this clip from YouTube. I was hoping to meet him one day but I am so happy that I could paint his portrait and honor him and save the chimps in this way.

Chimp Sketch of the Week # 30

Here are two drawings I did of two chimps that live at SAVE THE CHIMPS in Florida they were displayed prominently and for sale at a recent fundraiser. The one on the left is DEVON and was sold, the one on the right is JORDAN and still available. They also took the portrait of Jordan and printed it on T-SHIRT as another way to raise funds as seen in CHIMP SKETCH OF THE WEEK #27 you can buy that HERE.

Chimp Sketch of the Week #27

Jordan Tee Shirt 

I recently did a few portraits for Save The Chimps in Florida a Chimpanzee Sanctuary with over 250 chimpanzee residents. They took one of them and put them on a shirt.

Buy one here I don't get a penny but its a great cause

here is the original drawing