Edgar Allan Slothman’s Birds of America 2.0

turkey“In 1830, John James Audubon set out to paint every bird in America. This monumental effort resulted in his massive tome, Birds of America consisting of close to 500 hand-colored prints sold by subscription. Today, these sets are extremely rare and fetch millions of dollars.In 2012, illustrator, Edgar Allan Slothman set out to reinterpret Audubon’s Birds of America with a Mac computer…in his own simplified, graphic style.

5 down. 495 to go.”yellow-throat tern

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One Comment on “Edgar Allan Slothman’s Birds of America 2.0”

  1. April 5, 2013 at 8:21 am #

    Reblogged this on Art4All and commented:
    Very interesting interpretations of Audubon’s birds. It just fits beautifully into our topic of birds.

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