 |
Leveille Illustration captures the character of all animals, not just wild ones. Here, a domestic milk cow is startled by a screaming mountain lion, (also known as a puma or cougar.)
Scroll down to see more illustrations.
 |
One of many Leveille Illustration graphics featured on the signs at the Giraffe exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo, this image shows the dangers of drinking for giraffes.
Giraffes have adapted to eat the crowns of acacia trees:
Young giraffes are pooled in a nursery, watched over
by a babysitting guardian:
Scroll down to see more illustrations.
|
|
|
Gray seal, golden-cheeked gibbon, and African wild dog identification signs at the Los Angeles Zoo, by Leveille Illustration.
Snow leopard seasonal coat camouflage by Leveille Illustration.
Animal identification illustrations
|
 |
 |
Leveille Illustration specializes in animal artwork. Please do not reproduce these copyrighted graphics in any form. Scroll down to see more illustrations.
Animal portraits
Snow leopard portrait
This portrait of the rare snow leopard and many other species identification graphics are featured on the field guide signs of the Los Angeles Zoo. Leveille Illustration painted most of them in acrylics.
This stone exhibit marker was also designed by Leveille Illustration, and carved by Stone Imagery:
More carnivore artwork
On the left is a fossa (pronounced "fooshe,") which preys on lemurs in Madagascar. Fossas resemble cats and otters, but they are not related. The wolverine, pictured below, is the largest relative of the weasel. These illustrations were painted with water-based oils, by Leveille Illustration for the Los Angeles Zoo.
Scroll down to see more of fossa illustration.
To the left are fish and cephalopods consumed by gray seals in the North Atlantic.
Each was rendered with more detail on the left side, with the right sides fading into the background, to match the style of the graphics with which they were grouped.
About 14 of these sea creatures were featured on signage at the Los Angeles Zoo's seal exhibit.
This is a rainbow fish from the Fly River in northern Australia. It is consumed by the Fly River turtle, which is on display at the new LAIR exhibit.
|
|
|
Animal portraits by Leveille Illustration
Portraits of bats and others
Bats come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Featured here are some of our local bats, as well as a trident-nosed bat, a flying fox, and a horsehead bat, among others. These illustrations were used in a popular zoo website game called, "Name That Bat."
(Scroll down to see more illustrations.)
Portraits of a bighorn, a Solomon Islands skink, and a chimpanzee.
Scroll down to see more illustrations.
Giraffes
|
Himalayan prey
High in the Himalayas, the elusive snow leopard hunts
anything from the diminutive pica to the great wild yak.
These watercolors, and more, were made for the snow
leopard exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo.
Scroll down to see more illustrations.
Koala trouble
Featured at the Koala House at the Los Angeles Zoo, this image illustrates territoriality in koalas faced with habitat encroachment. This, and other graphics at the entrance to the Koala House, were painted in gouache by Leveille Illustration.
A common road hazard in Australia:
Scroll down to see more illustrations.
|
Prey fish
Jump to:
|
Wolf family scene for jigsaw puzzle
This wolf family scene was made for a jigsaw company. The image is especially detailed to keep the interest of people closely examining tiny puzzle pieces. Besides the wolves, there are also squirrels, a moose, a blue jay, a salamander, and fish.
Wolf family graphic by Leveille Illustration
Dozens of animal identification signs such as these were illustrated by Leveille Illustration for the Los Angeles Zoo. Older signs were made with ceramic paints on tiles. More recently sign graphics were painted with acrylics. Most current signs are designed entirely on a computer.
An example of a sign on display:
Scroll down to see more illustrations.
Snow leopard sign at the Los Angeles Zoo, by Leveille Illustration.
Wolverine graphic by Leveille Illustration
Fossa graphic by Leveille Illustration
Bat species portraits by Leveille Illustration
North Atlantic species graphics by Leveille Illustration
Giraffe graphic by Leveille Illustration
Himalayan species graphics by Leveille Illustration
Fighting koalas by Leveille Illustration.
Startled cow
Startled cow by Leveille Illustration.
Screaming cougar by Leveille Illustration.
|
|
Jump to page:
