Today, we’re looking at the hilarious art by a non-artist. Phil Heckels, who goes by the nom de plume Hercule Van Wolfwinkle. Heckels (so much easier to type than Van Wolfwinkle), draws adorably-bad pet portraits to raise money for charity. A few months ago, he got the idea to offer to draw a portrait of the pets of anyone who donated to Turning Tides, a U.K.-based charity working to end homelessness. The offer soon caught on, and the “artist” has raised thousands of dollars for the grateful organization.
“The requests for portraits have gone through the roof. I have no way of counting the messages in my Facebook inbox, but I think there must be approximately 2,000, maybe more. I have had to slow down the output a little over these couple of days due to all the media commitments taking up time, but hopefully, people will bear with me and I hope to be back to drawing three to five portraits per day, which has probably been about my average.”
– Hercule Van Wolfwinkle
You can see all of the nutty, adorable pet portraits by Phil Heckels/Hercule Van Wolfwinkle on Facebook and on his Just Giving page. And you can check out Turning Tides on their website.
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December 11, 2020 at 7:11 am
Those are marvelous and for such a good cause
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December 12, 2020 at 11:12 am
They’re so much fun!
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December 12, 2020 at 11:19 am
😎
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December 11, 2020 at 10:19 am
As Donna knows this is not my type of art. But for the cause and for Donna, I am following her. At least I did have a big smile looking at some of them. Hal
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December 12, 2020 at 11:14 am
Thank you, Hal! You’re a good friend.
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December 11, 2020 at 10:56 am
Well…it is for a good cause.
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December 12, 2020 at 11:14 am
LOL. You don’t find them awkwardly adorable?
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December 12, 2020 at 11:59 am
My grands should contribute…..but more power to him.
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December 12, 2020 at 5:25 pm
It is all a bit childlike, but in a good way, I think.
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December 11, 2020 at 7:27 pm
I’m so glad you liked these as much as I did. XO
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December 12, 2020 at 11:16 am
Just plain loved them! Oh, I stole them from you and totally forgot to give you credit. So sorry! Readers, I give you the source of the post, my good friend Diane! Diane, take a bow!
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December 12, 2020 at 8:18 pm
Well, I stole them from my friend Kathy . . . and who knows who SHE stole them from!
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December 12, 2020 at 11:35 pm
Lol. Point taken.
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December 12, 2020 at 12:03 am
They are super adorable. That labradoodle (?) is a fave!
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December 12, 2020 at 11:17 am
They all made me so happy. If they were drawn by a child, they’d be cute, but their being drawn by an adult makes them so much funnier!
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December 18, 2020 at 2:34 pm
i love these! maybe in a year or two i could send him a photo of one of my cats and he’ll have time to create one…
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December 19, 2020 at 5:03 pm
I had the same idea!
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