Louis Masai.
Masai is an amazing artist that focuses his art around animals, mainly endangered. He is both a studio artist and a mural maker. One of his recent projects called "Last of my kind" documented endangered birds with references to extinct musicians, the point of this project was to ask humans why we often fail to notice a disappearing species yet mourn the death of a celebrity. I feel really connected to his art he creates, for all I don't have a human connection to my art work I feel like the endangered species element is a big focal point for both our artworks.
Judith MacKay.
MacKay is an animal artist, originally she drew animals of any sort, and still does but now she also try's to make awarenesses for endangered species. She uses a few different mediums, such as; Pastels, graphite pencils, pens and tinted charcoal. She has mentioned before that she aims to give a voice to the voiceless through her work, to connect to an audience who could make a difference, whether that be an audience that contributes to a charity financially to aid in the protection of these animals or just an audience that sparks an emotional response, it all helps. MacKay is a very hands on artist that works with a few charities to help them gain as many supporters they can. I could only hope to have such an impact on my audience one day. This is a big inspiration for me.
This artist really catches the same look I am going for in my work. With half of their faces stripped down and decorated with the pattern of the tribes local to each species origin, and gold highlighting the body part prized by poachers. However I didn’t create a headdress for my work, it did cross my mind until I remebered cultural appropriation was a thing, this artist is the closet thing to depitcing the damage we create.
Sonny, the street artist.
Andy Warhol.
Back in 1983 he created a series of ten coloured screenprints of endangered animals. I feel he creates a dynamic look as if they are almost moving. The pieces have there own suggestive motion to what the animals fate really is.
