Carla Grace has certainly succeeded in her mission to share just how special these animals are. To craft their likenesses, she starts each large-scale canvas with her subjects’ eyes. Once they appear “alive,” she moves onto the rest of the painting, meticulously rendering realistic fur and feathers in oil paint. Each piece is so true to life that you can almost feel the warm energy of her wild subjects coming from the canvas.

Her incredible depictions of tigers, lions, wolves, giraffes, and much more capture the wild, majestic beauty of the animal kingdom.