If Shepard Fairey Joined PETA: Obey The Pure Breed Posters & Merchandise

Take a love of animals, a clever sense of humor, a predilection toward puns and a shepard fairey art style and what have you got?



Obey The Pure Breed, is the brainchild of Kevin McCormick, a humorous take off on Shepard Fairey's propoganda posters, only with cats and dogs. They sell beautifully designed posters for just about every dog breed imaginable, some of the most popular kitties and have t-shirts, mugs, notebooks and more.



Here are some of the breeds available:






Here are some of the posters in full:





All of the designs are available on mugs, t-shirts, hoodies, notebooks, ceramic tiles and more through their cafepress stores for each of the breeds.

In addition to the large selection of posters, they sell a series of limited edition prints, two examples below:



And some even done in the style of Woodstock psychedelic rock posters!
Below are two Pugstock examples:

ABOUT KEVIN MCCORMICK
Inspired by a militant Weimaraner named "Cody," Kevin McCormick started combining propaganda art with heroic portraits of dogs. The designs which make tongue in cheek social and political commentary, represent the passion and loyalty that many dog "owners" have for their breeds.

The artist has (or serves, as he puts it) 2 Vizslas and a 1 year old baby.
A Rutgers College grad Kevin is now a web designer and computer illustrator.

Tons of downloadable wallpaper options for your computer can be found here.
They also design and stock political propaganda posters, and many more.Check them all out.


Visit the site here.


And, by the way, And if you're not a 'pet parent', but an actual human parent, they have Obey The Baby stuff and other funny versions of popular culture.

Lowbrow Artists do Highbrow Charity

Thanks to Corey Helford Gallery of Culver City, today's most respected and popular "Lowbrow" Artists (see previous article on lowbrow art here) have culled together a fabulous show benefiting The Alliance For Children's Rights that takes vintage paint-by-number art and transforms it into unique pieces of low brow art.

Granted, this is not the first gallery to promote and exhibit the idea of paintng over vintage art. To be fair, The Wurst Gallery did this years ago, only not restricted to paint by number art.

With fun original creations by such well known popular artists as Mark Ryden, Shepard Fairey, Joe Ledbetter, Jeff Soto, Camille Rose Garcia and Gary Basemen, just to name a few, these paintings are available for auction on ebay with 100% of the proceeds benefiting The Alliance For Children's rights (see their mission statement below).

Available for purchase on ebay, the auctions ending on Friday, Feb 16th and prices are already rising rapidly, so you'd better get your bids in now.

Here are just a few wonderful examples of the original vintage PBN and the finished pieces. Click on images to enlarge:

Mark Ryden:

Gary Baseman:

Ana Bagoyen:

Shepard Fairey:

Jeff Soto:


The bids are moving up quickly on these works already, so if you'd like to see many more (and you should) be sure to visit Corey Helford Gallery of Culver City or check out the auctions on ebay.


above: Corey Helford Gallery

Nonprofit's Mission Statement
The Alliance for Children's Rights is protecting the rights and futures of abused and impoverished children throughout Los Angeles County, in hopes of creating a world in which all children are able to have a safe and permanent family, access to quality health care, a quality education, and all of the support and services they so rightfully deserve.