
This was the final for my Illustration Topics Class. The subject was rainforest, and the story goes that Teddy Roosevelt, while hunting in the Amazon witnessed the massacre of a cow by a school of piranha. This illustration had to be painted large enough to still print clearly on a 30x40" banner print, which was part of the assignment.
"They will rend and devour alive any wounded man or beast; for blood in the water excites them to madness." -Teddy Roosevelt, "Through the Brazillian Wilderness"
Done for my Illustration Topics Class with Tom Garrett.