Angry Birds Delightfully Immortalized In Rachel Lord’s Paintings

Now that the Angry Birds craze has died down a bit artist Rachel Lord has decided to immortalize our fine feathered friends even more. In a lighthearted way, Lord renders a true cartoon likeness of each bird set against a photorealistic background. At times the rural settings look a cross between paint by numbers and millennium pop art. If you haven’t noticed, The Angry Birds have become just as much part of mainstream pop culture as the Simpsons or Disneyworld.

Two billion downloads strong, the Finnish Company Rovio first introduced the series in 2009. Those familiar will remember the birds objective was to fight mean snorkeling baddie pigs in various outdoor settings. It required little video game skill and could be downloaded for free in a number of apps. The play consisted of flinging an individual bird into structures with an objective to destroy enemy forts. Despite its violence and simplicity there was an addictive quality to the gameplay which turned the birds into martyrs since each one perished after playing. To date it is the most downloaded free game of all time.

Lord’s paintings reminisce each character in a blissful state, giving peaceful existence to the multi-variety of birds. It’s interesting to note Lord painted the birds in subdued situations instead of flinging them across the canvas watching them destroy. The birds are all ultra cute and have different abilities but mostly are cute and whose bright feathers make for nice contrast in Lord’s paintings set against the subtle natural colors of oceans, mountains and trees. Besides their own games, the brand has released Star Wars, Transformers and NBA versions. There is an Angry Bird theme park and Angry Bird soda.