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Animal identification illustrations
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:
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Leveille Illustration specializes in animal artwork. Please do not reproduce these copyrighted graphics in any form. Scroll down to see more illustrations.
Animal portraits in acrylic, oil, and digital
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:
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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.
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These are all 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.
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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."
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Portraits of a bighorn, a Solomon Islands skink, and a chimpanzee.
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Giraffes
Featured on the signs at the giraffe exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo, these graphics illustrate the dangers of drinking for giraffes;
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a size comparison between a human and a giraffe; a competition for the highest leaves;
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and a giraffe nursery, in which one adult looks over all the youngsters in the herd.
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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.
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Koala trouble
These graphics were featured at the Koala House at the Los Angeles Zoo. They illustrate territoriality in koalas faced with habitat encroachment, and
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a common road hazard in Australia. These, and the graphics at the entrance to the Koala House, were painted in gouache by Leveille Illustration.
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North Atlantic fish
