Lesley Smitheringale Fine Art

Featured Artists - Pigcasso and Friends

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Meet these artistic animals …

Koopa, a Gulf Coast box turtle, creates a summer-themed custom ordered painting for a buyer in Australia at the home of his owner, Kira Varszegi in Hartford, Conn., on Aug. 24, 2004. Koopa’s paintings sold on eBay for hundreds of dollars, and his pieces hang in 35 of the 50 states. (Photo: AP Photo/Jessica Hill) Pinto, an accomplished painter for a Yucatan miniature pig, gets his snout into an original work of art on Feb. 23, 2006, at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Using a selection of non-toxic primary colors, Pinto mixes them in innovative ways (hooves, snout, objects and sometimes food items) to create his one-of-a-kind masterpieces. (Photo: AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) Sammy, a foxhound mix, uses a paintbrush attached to a rubber bone to paint a canvas on June 12, 2007, at a gallery at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Md. Mary Stadelbacher, owner of Shore Service Dogs, has a collection of abstract paintings daubed by her three service dogs in training. (Photo: AP Photo/Matthew S. Gunby) 

A painting by Sammy, a foxhound mix, is shown on June 12, 2007, at a gallery at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Md. Sammy is a service dog in training. The doggie da Vinci and two other service dogs have a line of greeting cards that has sold out as word spreads about the unusual works of art. One of the original works has sold for $350. (Photo: AP Photo/Matthew S. Gunby)

Elephants paint on a canvas during a Guinness World Record attempt for the most expensive painting by elephants at Maesa elephant camp in Chiang Mai province, Thailand, on Feb. 19, 2005. The elephants used acrylic colors on the 2.4-meter-high, 6-meter-long canvas called “Wind, Mist, Lanna Charm Number One.” A painting by eight elephants previously sold for a record price of $39,500. (Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Pinto, an accomplished painter for a Yucatan miniature pig, gets his snout into an original work of art on Feb. 23, 2006, at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Using a selection of non-toxic primary colors, Pinto mixes them in innovative ways (hooves, snout, objects and sometimes food items) to create his one-of-a-kind masterpieces. (Photo: AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

One of Pinto’s artworks

Koopa, a Gulf Coast box turtle, creates a summer-themed custom ordered painting for a buyer in Australia at the home of his owner, Kira Varszegi in Hartford, Conn., on Aug. 24, 2004. Koopa’s paintings sold on eBay for hundreds of dollars, and his pieces hang in 35 of the 50 states. (Photo: AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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