Alex Beard (artist)

Beard's artwork consists mostly of ink drawings and oil paintings. His uncle Peter Beard first taught him how to use an ink quill when he was a child, as well as encouraged him from a very young age to be an artist and businessman.^[12] The subject matter of the majority of Beard's artwork is wildlife using a style of painting he calls Abstract Naturalism. This is a combination of abstract expressionism and naturalistic environmental art.^[13] The only human subject matter that he works with is a mathematical sequence called "The Audience."^[14]

Beard is the author of Tales from the Watering Hole, a series of books penned and illustrated by Beard and published by Abrams Books. The Jungle Grapevine was published in 2009,^[15] Monkey See, Monkey Draw was published in 2011,^[16] and Crocodile's Tears was published in 2012.^[17] "Crocodile's Tears" was reviewed by The New York Times in February 2012 by author Pamela Paul.^[18] Beard's fourth book in the series The Lying King was published on September 4, 2018 by Greenleaf Book Group.^[19]

An app based on Beard's trilogy of books, also named Tales from the Watering Hole, was published in 2013 by Fat Red Couch, Inc.^[20] In 2008, Beard released a line of jigsaw puzzles featuring his artwork. The puzzle pieces feature unique shapes that do not snap into each other like usual puzzles. Instead, they settle side by side. This allows the puzzles to have many different combinations of results.^[21] In 2015, a series of needlepoint canvases based on Beard's work was released by QS Designs in New Orleans, LA.^{[citation needed]}