tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23697681643600123212024-03-14T05:16:22.290-07:00An Elephant a Day 2.0Elephants, art, conservation news and elephant lore, based on the original 366-day Elephant a Day blog.Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-50397352728273675552015-06-30T14:36:00.002-07:002021-04-17T10:00:24.861-07:00Elephant No. 141: Guest Artist MaryAnna Coleman<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">All art photographs © MaryAnna Coleman.</span><br /></i><br />
I first came across MaryAnna's work via the <a href="http://elephantaday2.blogspot.ca/2015/06/elephant-no-130-quick-sketch-for.html">#Elegram Project</a>, where one of her gorgeous watercolour elephants (the one just below) was showcased. I was thinking of trying to contact her via the Nature Conservancy to see if I could feature her work on this blog, when she contacted me herself.<br />
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MaryAnna says she grew up doing art, earning a BA from Gettsburg College with a major in Studio Art. She also spent a semester studying abroad in Florence, Italy, with a significant focus on art.<br />
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Although MaryAnna says that, after her graduation in 2010, she hadn't been as active in art as she would have liked, she began doodling again this past winter, "which turned into drawing and painting. I started drawing dogs I ran into around New York City, and started to get requests for portraits/commissions of friends' pets."<br />
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MaryAnna is highly experimental—a quality I greatly admire, as you can well imagine. According to MaryAnna herself, "It's been fun trying out different subjects, styles, and mediums. Before this, I had mostly just worked with acrylic/oil painting, so watercolour has been a fun challenge and experiment as well."<br />
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<br />In addition to her wonderful watercolour elephants, MaryAnna has produced a wide range of sensitive images featuring wildlife and domesticated animals in mediums from pen-and-ink to paint.<br />
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To see more of MaryAnna's work, check her out at MaryAnnaColeman Design on <a href="https://instagram.com/MaryAnnaColemanDesign/">Instagram</a>. To get in touch with her directly, contact her at <a href="mailto:Maryannacolemandesign@gmail.com">Maryannacolemandesign@gmail.com</a>.<br />
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We all know by now that elephants are highly sensitive creatures, and that they form strong emotional attachments. This, however, is one of the most poignant little stories that I've ever read.<br />
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In May 2014, a female elephant named Cherie died of an infection on Kenya's savanna. Rangers had been monitoring her condition over a number of days, hoping that she'd rally. Sadly, she died of a twisted gut, despite all attempts to help her. After her death, her heartbroken calf refused to leave Cherie's side. The five-month-old baby clung to her throughout the night, even after the rest of the herd had left. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Throughout the night, Sokotei refused to leave his dead mother's side.<br />Photo: ©DS2/Barcroft Media<br />Source: <a href="http://www.viralspell.com/baby-elephant-watched-mother-die-next-will-break-heart/">www.viralspell.com</a></td></tr>
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The story has a happy ending, however. The following morning, keepers from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, the Kenya Wildlife Service and Save the Elephants were able to tranquilize the calf and separate him from his mother. He was then moved to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage near Nairobi.<br />
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Tragically, orphaned elephants often pine away, even with the best of care, and sometimes die of what can only be described as a broken heart. Luckily, Sokotei, as the calf was named, eventually rallied with the support of dedicated keepers and other elephants, and hopes are high that he can be returned to the wild one day.<br />
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To read more about Sokotei and other orphaned elephants available for adoption at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, please click <a href="http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/fostering.asp">here</a>.<br />
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Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-14391873636938603222015-06-22T14:15:00.002-07:002021-04-17T10:00:48.706-07:00Elephant No. 140: Inktense Blocks<br /><br />
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I wasn't going to make an elephant today, but then I came across a tin of Inktense blocks, and realized I'd never really used them before.<br />
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I thought they deserved a large surface, so I decided to work on an 18 x 24-inch (45.7 x 61 cm) sheet of Canson 140 lb. watercolour paper. I almost cut the sheet in half, but I never work big so I made myself stick to using the whole sheet.<br />
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I'm always better, of course, drawing from a photograph, so I chose this one by <a href="http://elephantaday2.blogspot.ca/2013/11/elephant-no-63-feature-artist-nick.html">Nick Brandt</a>. <br />
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Photo: Nick Brandt<br />
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I began by doing a faint outline in red.<br />
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Now comes the fun part. Because Inktense is a water-soluble medium, the pigments become much more interesting when wet. Unlike watercolour paints or pencils, Inktense turns into ink when wet. Essentially, the heavier you draw, the more saturated the colours, and the more ink you have to move around.<br />
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To me, it's a bit like those magic-dot pictures in colouring books: just add water and colours appear. I used a small flat paintbrush for most of this, with a finer brush to make a few thin lines.<br />
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I liked this quite a lot, but I also wanted slightly more definition, so I waited until this was damp-dry, then added some fine lines and shading on top with a purple Inktense pencil.<br />
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The thing I like most about Inktense blocks and pencils is that you can leave some of the sketchy lines as a contrast with the swathes of ink.<br />
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This is one of my favourite elephant stories, adapted from the original Elephant a Day blog. A few years back, at a safari camp in Tanzania's Katavi National Park, one of
the area's normally well-behaved elephants suddenly took to ripping
the canvas flysheets on the camp's tents.<br />
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At first it was assumed that the elephant had accidentally stumbled into the canvas. Elephants are usually clever enough to pick their way over guy ropes and other
obstacles with no trouble, but maybe this guy was a little clumsy. The safari operators called in a tailor, who
carefully sewed the tears in the sheets.<br />
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later, it happened again. This was repeated several times, until the elephant was caught in the act. Resting his tusks on the flysheet
at the back of a tent, he gently pushed down on the canvas, causing it to rip. At first no one could figure out why this particular elephant
had become so destructive. Then in occurred to them: he simply liked the
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Because the flysheets could
only be mended so many times, the safari operators came up with a clever
solution. Instead of sewing the flysheets back together, they fastened
on new pieces of canvas with Velcro®. The elephant still gets to enjoy
the sound of tearing fabric, but now it's easier to put back together.<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.vintagecamps.com/Photo_Gallery.htm">vintagecamps.com</a></td></tr>
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Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-80967096603042739662015-06-19T13:15:00.001-07:002021-04-17T10:01:09.039-07:00Elephant No. 139: Painting with Nail Polish<br />
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I'm next to useless at painting my nails, so there will be no elephants on fingernails today. However, given the number of bottles of nail polish I own, I thought I'd try painting on canvas instead.<br />
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I have every colour you can imagine—although, strangely, never the specific colour I want on my nails—so I had a lot of colour choices at my disposal. My only rule was that I had to use the brushes that come with the nail polish. No point, after all, in ruining a perfectly good paintbrush.<br />
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Not having ever tried this before, I decided to use a small canvas board, measuring 5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.8 cm). I also thought it might be good to make a light pencil sketch to guide my work, and decided to draw from the photograph below.<br />
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I began by using a few pale blues and greens, with a sort of drybrush technique. I had originally expected that I'd be applying the colours more thickly, but I became timid when faced with actually committing nail polish to canvas.<br />
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Where the nail polish was a bit opaque, I didn't really like the effect. In the end, I used the nail polish brushes very gently, barely touching the
surface. This also let the texture of the canvas show through, which I thought was interesting. Who knew you could get a watercolour effect with nail polish straight out of a bottle? <br />
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I used a surprising number of colours, as you can see from the photograph below. Some of them were more opaque than others — for example, three different pale blues that looked very similar in the bottles were remarkably different in opacity when applied to the canvas.<br />
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Although I avoided using glitter nail polish, the final work has a definite surface shimmer.<br />
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Despite my hesitant brushstrokes, I like the final elephant quite a lot. Next time I think I'd be a bit bolder with the colour—and I'd definitely have better ventilation—but as a first attempt at painting with nail polish, it was kind of fun. <br />
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In many parts of Asia, there are yearly festivals to honour
elephants. Most of these include games, an elephant parade, and an elephant beauty contest.<br />
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Competing elephants are painted with bright water-based paint, and are dressed in embroidered silks and brocades. For many elephants, the finishing touch is a coat of bright acrylic paint on the elephant's toenails. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loktantrakali getting her toenails painted, Sauraha, Nepal, December 2011.<br />
Source: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/8981118/Elephant-beauty-contest-football-match-and-race-during-festival-in-Nepal.html?image=2">Telegraph.co.uk</a></td></tr>
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<i><span style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: small;">An early experiment from the original Elephant a Day blog. One of the weirdest art things I ever tried . . . Enjoy!</span><br /></i><br />
A couple of years ago, I saw an intriguing portrait created with smoke by South African artist, <a href="http://www.davidkrut.com/victorGallery.html">Diane Victor</a>. Since it's warm enough to go outside and burn things on my front porch, today seemed like a good day to try fumage.<br />
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Fumage (from <i>fumée</i>—French
for "smoke") was invented in 1936 by Surrealist artist Wolfgang Paalen.
The technique involves creating patterns with the smoke and soot of a
lit candle. Intrigued by Paalen's invention, fellow Surrealists such as
Salvador Dali also created works of fumage, usually painting over the
delicate lines of soot to complete the work.<br />
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technique is very simple: take a thick piece of paper, board or wood.
Run a candle over it until soot is deposited on the surface. Try not to
burn or scorch anything.<br />
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Although the technique is
simple, the set-up is a bit weird. In order to have visual and manual
control of your work, you have to hold it above you. I had no idea what
this meant until I saw a photograph of <a href="http://www.artprintsa.com/diane-victor.html">Diane Victor at work</a>.<br />
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used a piece of art bristol (the same thing as bristol board, but
slightly better quality), attached to a piece of masonite with binder
clips. You could use any heavy paper or bristol board, but make sure
it's 100 lb. or heavier, or it will catch fire. I used 40 lb. paper for
my first test piece, and set it on fire within seconds. You can also use
canvas coated in gesso, or supports such as masonite, wood or
fibreboard, also coated in gesso. The gesso—a plasterlike substance
(don't use acrylic gesso for obvious reasons)—is primarily to help the
design show more clearly.<br />
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Once
you have your canvas and a place to work, light a candle and get
started. The best type of candle is a slender taper of some sort. It's
also a good idea to have a pillar candle or other large candle to
relight your working candle if necessary. You may also want to take
precautions to cover your table, porch or floor to avoid the mess of
melted wax. I didn't find, however, that the wax that fell on my hand
was overly hot or annoying.<br />
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If you have a big surface
to play with, you can also try a "palette" of different candles, in
order to experiment with various effects. I tried a smallish candle (the
kind used for angel chimes) on my test piece, but found it too big for
the size of paper I had, so I switched to birthday candles. These were a
much better fit for me, and each of the pieces I did required exactly
one birthday candle—as you'll see, I got faster as I went along.<br />
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Using
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the candle over the paper's surface. Depending on the weight of your
canvas and its support, your hand might get tired, so it's not a bad
idea to have something for it to lean on.<br />
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As you guide
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appearing on the paper. These were my first two attempts, which were
very tentative, as you can see.<br />
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By
changing the angle of paper and/or candle, you can create different
effects. Changing the speed and proximity of the candle also creates
interesting patterns. For example, if you move the candle fairly
quickly, you'll get a soft, light grey over a large area. A longer wick
gives you more delicate lines, whereas a shorter wick will give you
darker and heavier areas.<br />
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These were my next few
attempts. To create the eyes, I held the flame directly perpendicular to
the paper. This is something you have to do very quickly, or the paper
will scorch. I scorched the first of these (the baby elephant) a bit,
but not enough to actually burn the paper. <br />
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In
a couple of these pieces, you can see the effect of using the candle at
a very acute angle to the paper. The lines will be delicate and
feathery, but they will also be quite long, slithering all the way up
the paper.<br />
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These are the last two I made. Something I
discovered on the final piece is that, when I layered smoke on top of
itself in five or six layers, the top layer went a sort of whitish ash
colour (you can see it in the ear of the final elephant). It doesn't
actually feel like ash, and it doesn't blow off like ash, so I'm not
sure what it is. Perhaps it's some sizing or chemical in the paper
leaching up. It makes for an interesting effect, but I didn't really
want white to show up, so I'd probably watch out for it next time.<br />
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It's
not an easy medium to control, so the results will definitely be
abstract. Many artists who do fumage today add paint to their final
works. The fumage creates a
dreamlike image, which is then enhanced with colour in the form of oil
or other paints. I might have wanted to do that if I'd created more
long, feathery lines, but I didn't think paint would help any of these
all that much.<br />
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Once you're happy with a fumage work,
you can play with the design by smudging some of the soot with your
fingers, an eraser, a brush, or even something sharper. I tried this on
my test board, just to see what effect it would give, and I didn't like
it all that much. Unless the area is quite dark, the soot doesn't brush
off to any great extent, and smudging just seems to lighten the area
without making it any more interesting. That being said, I didn't smudge
anything on the elephants pictured here. What look like finger smudges
on some of them are actually the work of the candle.<br />
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Unfortunately,
fumage really is as ephemeral as smoke. The dark areas in particular
are especially unstable. Although some recommend
preserving the final result with a varnish or fixative, many artists
have found that fixatives will ruin the work. I tried spraying fixative
on a test piece first, and it worked okay, as long as I kept the spray
really far away and sprayed a very fine mist. The fixative does seem to
grab onto any thicker areas of soot, turning the area a slightly cloudy
colour and beading up a little. It also appears to fade the work
somewhat, which may be because a fine layer of soot is being blown away
by the force of the fixative spray. And the combination of soot and
fixative (even the low-odour kind) smells terrible. <br />
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A
better idea might be to quickly frame anything you really like, making
sure the glass doesn't smudge the work—because the least touch of
anything on the darker areas will make them rub off. I learned this the
hard way. Thinking it would be clever to place the finished
(non-fixative) pieces between sheets of tissue paper, I was disappointed
to find that the slightest touch of tissue made obvious scratches in
the dark areas. The damage was already done, but I quickly sprayed them
all with fixative anyway. (By the way, I discovered later that even a
coating of fixative will not completely prevent the darkest areas from
scratching.)<br />
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I also learned that it doesn't work if you
try to go back and "re-soot" the scratched areas. Not only can you
never match the original effect, but the paper has also already been
somewhat compromised, and is more likely to scorch. Better to live with
the scratches as an interesting effect, and/or rework them with charcoal
or something. Better still to carefully photograph anything you
especially like as soon as you've finished it, and keep that as your
final work.<br />
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Fumage is an interesting medium to work
with, although you really can't control the results to any great degree.
Once you get a feel for the angle of candle to paper, and how close to
get, it's fun to explore various effects. Just don't be married to a
final result. And be prepared for scratches.<br />
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<b>Elephant Lore of the Day</b></div>
Elmer
the Safety Elephant was an elephant character invented in Toronto,
Canada in 1947. Originally created to teach schoolchildren about road
safety—with slogans such as "Look both ways before crossing the street"
and "Keep away from parked cars," Elmer later branched out to cover fire
safety.<br />
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An elephant was chosen to represent the
program because of the exceptional memory elephants were reputed to
have. The program was the brainchild of Toronto mayor Robert Hood
Saunders,
who was inspired by a similar program in Detroit, Michigan. Within the
first year of the Toronto program, collisions involving children had
dropped by 44 per cent.<br />
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The first Elmer was a simple
profile of an elephant, but in 1948, Saunders decided to recruit former
Walt Disney animator Charles Thorson to give Elmer a new look. Thorson,
who was born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada, had also designed the
characters for the world's first animated feature, Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs, and is credited with designing and naming Bugs Bunny.<br />
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The
new Elmer wore a sailor's hat and a bow. The Toronto Safety Council had
costumes made which were worn by mascots for Elmer's many appearances
in classrooms and at Saturday morning movie matinees. Elmer's fame soon
spread far beyond Toronto, becoming a Canada-wide children's safety
program.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original design for Elmer the Safety Elephant<br />
Source: http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/symbols/elmer-the-safety-elephant/</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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One of the most important parts
of the Elmer program was the safety flag, which flew outside schools.
Schools that had gone at least 30 days without an accident caused by a
student's carelessness were allowed to fly the Elmer flag on their
flagpoles. This remains a part of the Elmer program to this day.<br />
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In addition to road safety, Elmer now deals with fire safety, railroad safety, Internet safety, and bullying.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elmer the Safety Elephant today<br />
Source: http://elmer.ca/fun-elmer/colouring.php</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.worldwildlife.org/home-full.html">World Wildlife Fund</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.wspa-international.org/wspaswork/default.aspx">World Society for the Protection of Animals</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.bring-the-elephant-home.org/en/">Bring the Elephant Home</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantswithoutborders.org/donate.php">Elephants Without Borders</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.savetheelephants.org/">Save the Elephants</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantconservation.org/">International Elephant Foundation</a> <a href="http://www.elephantsworld.org/en/Donate.html">Elephant's World (Thailand) </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/howyoucanhelp.htm">David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/">Elephant Nature Park (Thailand)</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blesele.org/how_to_help/">Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary (Thailand)</a><br /><a href="http://www.wildlifesos.org/donate">Wildlife SOS (India) </a><br /><a href="https://www.elephants.com/estore/views.php?cat=6%5E21&sub_link=membership&desc=Membership%20and%20Donations&menu_oid=6">The Elephant Sanctuary (Tennessee)</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.davidshepherd.org/help-us/donate/">David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation</a></span></div>
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<a href="https://biglife.org/donations"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Big Life Foundation</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.theasianelephantfoundation.org/donate-participate">The Asian Elephant Foundation</a></span></div>
Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-24794885986405393902015-06-17T15:34:00.002-07:002021-04-17T10:02:06.040-07:00Elephant No. 137: Zentangle-Inspired Art<br />
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I've never tried doing anything like a Zentangle drawing before. It's always looked very complicated to me, and I was sure I wouldn't be able to do it without a lot of effort. I discovered today that it's actually quite easy—time-consuming, but easy.<br />
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According to the how-to book I bought, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/One-Zentangle-Day-Relaxation-Inspiration/dp/1592538118/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434578866&sr=8-1&keywords=one+zentangle+a+day"><i>One Zentangle a Day</i> by Beckhah Krahula</a>, the practice was created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas. The story goes that, while watching Maria work one day, Rick realized that her state of concentration was similar to his own state while meditating. Together, they came up with a series of steps that would allow anyone to maintain a relaxed focus while creating beautiful drawings with repeating patterns.<br />
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Technically, true Zentangle art is created on a square piece of paper, or "tile", measuring 3.5 x 3.5 inches (8.9 x 8.9 cm). The square is usually white or black, and the smallish size is designed to make it quick and easy to create a design. Traditional Zentangle patterns have interesting names like "Ynix", "Squid" and "Keeko", each with its own unique look. Artists are encouraged to combine patterns to produce something they find pleasing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some traditional Zentangle designs on standard tiles.<br />Art by Deb Ammerman<br />Source: <a href="http://debammermandesigns.blogspot.ca/2012/01/4-new-zen-tangle-drawings.html">Deb Ammerman Art and Design</a></td></tr>
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All of this was quite interesting, but far too involved for an impatient creature like me. Nor did I want to make something as small as a traditional Zentangle tile. This means I can't really call what I produced "Zentangle" but rather "Zentangle-inspired art". Okey dokey, then.<br />
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I started by making an outline of an African elephant's head.<br />
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I subdivided the outline next, and started laying in some patterning. So far, so good.<br />
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After this, I tried to use some of the traditional Zentangle patterns from the book. I didn't really have time to practice the designs properly, so I eventually decided simply to make repeating patterns I liked.<br />
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Once I finished the ears—which literally took hours—I considered adding patterning to the areas that were still relatively blank. However, I liked this so much as it was, that I was afraid I'd wreck it if I went any further. Maybe I'll be more bold once I get a bit more comfortable with Zentangle drawing.<br />
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<b>Elephant Lore of the Day</b></div>
A few days ago, my friend Saša sent me this image from <a href="https://twitter.com/pdchina/status/609682634164178944">@People's Daily, China</a>.<b> </b>What does one even say about a large elephant-shaped public toilet? I've seen images of many bizarre elephant structures over the years, but this is the oddest to date.<br />
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Recently opened in a park in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, the building is nine metres (29.5 feet) in height, and took more than a year to build. According to the <a href="http://gbtimes.com/tags/discover-zhengzhou"><i>GB Times</i></a>, nearby residents had no idea what the purpose of the structure might be, but told reporters that they liked the creative design anyway.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.awf.org/">African Wildlife Foundation</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantswithoutborders.org/donate.php">Elephants Without Borders</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.savetheelephants.org/">Save the Elephants</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantconservation.org/">International Elephant Foundation</a> <a href="http://www.elephantsworld.org/en/Donate.html">Elephant's World (Thailand) </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/howyoucanhelp.htm">David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.wti.org.in/pages/about-wti.html">Wildlife Trust of India</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blesele.org/how_to_help/">Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary (Thailand)</a><br /><a href="http://www.wildlifesos.org/donate">Wildlife SOS (India) </a><br /><a href="https://www.elephants.com/estore/views.php?cat=6%5E21&sub_link=membership&desc=Membership%20and%20Donations&menu_oid=6">The Elephant Sanctuary (Tennessee)</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.davidshepherd.org/help-us/donate/">David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation</a></span></div>
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<a href="https://biglife.org/donations"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Big Life Foundation</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.theasianelephantfoundation.org/donate-participate">The Asian Elephant Foundation</a></span></div>
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myself that I'm sure to find a purpose for them. And, if not, it's only a $3.00 investment.<br />
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This was the bag I bought. I didn't have an elephant in mind when I picked it up—I mostly just like shiny things—but I decided today that it was worth a try. <br />
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I
began a bit tentatively, thinking I'd use the bangles as general shapes
for the body and head. I opened up a leather bracelet for the ear, used
a chain for the nose, and a wooden bracelet for one of the legs.<br />
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I
wasn't sure how promising this was going to be, but I decided that I
would use every bit of jewellery in the bag somehow—even if it meant
balling it up and stuffing it inside one of the larger bangles. There
were a few interesting bits like this plastic skeleton keyring. I
decided it might work best stuffed into the elephant's belly. To be
honest, it was too gangly and unwieldy to work anywhere else.<br />
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I liked this bit of delicate chain for the elephant's tail.<br />
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And these two pink stud earrings were perfect for the tip of the elephant's trunk.<br />
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Also fun was this tiny heart in an envelope, which I put approximately where I thought the elephant's heart might be.<br />
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You
never know what you're going to get in a grab bag of junk jewellery,
but I really like the way this turned out. It's always fun to assemble
found objects, and I'm a bit sad that I have to take it apart and put
all the bits back in the bag.<br />
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<b>Elephant Lore of the Day</b></div>
Sometimes
little ones just get tired. In May of this year, a
baby elephant stumbled and fell in the middle of busy road in South
Africa's Kruger National Park. After a couple of half-hearted attempts
to get up, it laid down and decided to stay where it was.<br />
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Immediately,
its nearby herd came to the rescue. Invading the roadway, the herd
stopped traffic, forming a barrier between vehicles and the elephant
calf. Some of the older elephants prodded the baby with their trunks and
feet, trying to coax it to its feet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elephant calf with its protective detail, Kruger National Park, May 2015.<br />
Photo: © YouTube/Kruger Sightings<br />
Source: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3099900/Watch-amazing-moment-baby-elephant-collapses-busy-road-herd-comes-rescue.html">Daily Mail</a></td></tr>
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Eventually
the baby got up off the road and wandered back into the forest with its
herd. Onlookers expressed amazement at the herd's protective instincts,
and their willingness to put themselves between vehicles and the fallen
calf. To read the full story and see the video, please click <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3099900/Watch-amazing-moment-baby-elephant-collapses-busy-road-herd-comes-rescue.html">here</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The elephant calf is eventually coaxed to its feet.<br />
Photo: © YouTube/Kruger Sightings<br />
Source: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3099900/Watch-amazing-moment-baby-elephant-collapses-busy-road-herd-comes-rescue.html">Daily Mail</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.worldwildlife.org/home-full.html">World Wildlife Fund</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://support.nature.org/site/Donation2?df_id=14320&14320.donation=form1">The Nature Conservancy </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.bring-the-elephant-home.org/en/">Bring the Elephant Home</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.awf.org/">African Wildlife Foundation</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantswithoutborders.org/donate.php">Elephants Without Borders</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.savetheelephants.org/">Save the Elephants</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantconservation.org/">International Elephant Foundation</a> <a href="http://www.elephantsworld.org/en/Donate.html">Elephant's World (Thailand) </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/howyoucanhelp.htm">David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.wti.org.in/pages/about-wti.html">Wildlife Trust of India</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blesele.org/how_to_help/">Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary (Thailand)</a><br /><a href="http://www.wildlifesos.org/donate">Wildlife SOS (India) </a><br /><a href="https://www.elephants.com/estore/views.php?cat=6%5E21&sub_link=membership&desc=Membership%20and%20Donations&menu_oid=6">The Elephant Sanctuary (Tennessee)</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.davidshepherd.org/help-us/donate/">David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation</a></span></div>
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<a href="https://biglife.org/donations"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Big Life Foundation</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.theasianelephantfoundation.org/donate-participate">The Asian Elephant Foundation</a></span></div>
Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-17320310253729532732015-06-15T14:02:00.001-07:002021-04-17T10:04:03.892-07:00Elephant No. 135: Guest Artist Lori Seguin<br />
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I
love that Lori—who, to my knowledge, has never drawn or painted an
elephant in her life—decided to produce this quick sketch for the <a href="http://elephantaday2.blogspot.ca/2015/06/elephant-no-130-quick-sketch-for.html">#Elegram Project</a>. I
honestly don't know why she hesitated, because she's clearly a natural.<br />
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I
met Lori through her equally talented actress sister, Jennifer, and was
able to attend one of her first shows in Montreal. I bought a couple of
paintings at the show, in addition to one I'd bought earlier. Not sure
which of the ones I own is my favourite, and I'm kind of partial to a
few of her newer works as well.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Cowboy, the Princess and the Horse</i> (2013)<br />
Lori Seguin<br />
Acrylic on canvas<br />
16 x 20" (40.6 x 50.8 cm)<br />
Source: <a href="http://loriville.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=176003253">Loriville</a></td></tr>
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Lori often starts with a photograph
that piques her interest, then adapts it in her own unique way, adding
pattern, colour, overlays, and even text. One of the works I own has
feathers embedded in the paint; in another, the subject's hair stands on
end, rising up and over the top of the frame.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Got My Hair Did</i> (2010)<br />
Lori Seguin<br />
Acrylic on canvas, resin frame, dye, latex gloves<br />
7 x 9 inches (17.8 x 22.9 cm)<br />
Private Collection<br />
Source: <a href="http://loriville.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=197106237">Loriville</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Spinarette</i> (2013)<br />
Lori Seguin<br />
Acrylic on canvas<br />
11 x 14 inches (28 x 35.5 cm)<br />
Source: <a href="http://loriville.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=177168459">Loriville</a></td></tr>
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Lori tells me she's been making art all her life, and I can attest to
the fact that Lori pours her heart and soul into every work she
produces. Friends, family, animals and pop culture all come into play—play being the operative word. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Fish-Eyed Hipster</i> (2014)<br />
Lori Seguin<br />
Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 18 inches (50.8 x 45.7 cm)<br />
Private Collection<br />
Source: <a href="http://loriville.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=197106264">Loriville</a></td></tr>
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Currently based in Montreal, Lori is completely self-taught and
produces illustrations and cards in addition to paintings. And when
she's not making art, she's probably drumming up a storm.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Cardy</i> (2015)<br />
Lori Seguin<br />
Acrylic on canvas<br />
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)<br />
Private Collection</td></tr>
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I'm still touched and amazed that Lori
produced an elephant. I know she's resisted in the past, but she has a
very big heart, and clearly the #Elegram Project is irresistible. To see
more of Lori's work, visit her at <a href="http://loriville.webs.com/">Loriville</a>. <br />
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While
looking for news from the world of elephants and conservation today, I
stumbled across a fundraiser called the Elephant Charge.<br />
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October of each year, teams of cars and motorbikes take on a
challenging course through the Zambian bush. Each team pledges a minimum
of k4000 ($550 to $700 U.S.), which goes into a fund that is distributed to 12 causes all
over Zambia, including elephant welfare.<br />
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Teams are given ten
checkpoints, and must find their own way between them by
travelling through valleys, up cliffs and over ridges. The winning team
is the one that passes all ten checkpoints in the shortest distance
possible. Those who've entered the Elephant Charge say it's a gruelling
test of a team's driving, navigation and endurance skills. I've driven
the crazy ten-minute Land Rover course before, but I'm guessing this is
just a <i>teeny</i> bit more challenging.<br />
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The 2014 Elephant Charge raised more than K400,000 (approximately $55,000 to $70,000 U.S.) for
wildlife preservation. To read more about this year's Elephant Charge,
please click <a href="http://www.elephantcharge.org/about.html">here</a>.<br />
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Source: <a href="https://solbitstravels.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/solbit-says-put-a-land-rover-on-my-wish-list-please/">Solbitstravels</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.awf.org/">African Wildlife Foundation</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantswithoutborders.org/donate.php">Elephants Without Borders</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.savetheelephants.org/">Save the Elephants</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantconservation.org/">International Elephant Foundation</a> <a href="http://www.elephantsworld.org/en/Donate.html">Elephant's World (Thailand) </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.wti.org.in/pages/about-wti.html">Wildlife Trust of India</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blesele.org/how_to_help/">Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary (Thailand)</a><br /><a href="http://www.wildlifesos.org/donate">Wildlife SOS (India) </a><br /><a href="https://www.elephants.com/estore/views.php?cat=6%5E21&sub_link=membership&desc=Membership%20and%20Donations&menu_oid=6">The Elephant Sanctuary (Tennessee)</a></span></div>
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<a href="https://biglife.org/donations"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Big Life Foundation</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.theasianelephantfoundation.org/donate-participate">The Asian Elephant Foundation</a></span></div>
<b> </b>Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-61958586147590688472015-06-14T15:13:00.002-07:002021-04-17T10:04:21.114-07:00Elephant No. 134: Big Fat Markers<br />
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I don't know why I felt I had to buy these big fat markers, but they were only $2.50 for four, so it wasn't much of an investment. I'm sure I thought I needed them for something specific at the time, but for the life of me, I can't remember what that was.<br />
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I'm not terribly comfortable with fat markers and bold lines. In fact, I don't think I've ever even tried drawing with something this big, so I wasn't entirely sure how to use them. I also didn't want to work on something large, as I thought it would be more challenging to work with fat markers on a small page. I used 9 x 12" (22.8 x 30.5 cm) cheap sketchpad paper for all of these<br />
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This was my first attempt to play with the markers, just to see how they worked. I didn't like this drawing enough to do more with it.<br />
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Then I decided that fat markers might lend themselves best to a graffiti sort of style. Rather than draw an elephant, however, I decided to create an elephant by scrawling the word "elephant" over and over again. <br />
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The first graffiti-word elephant was done without an outline. I was distinctly underwhelmed. I can draw elephants in my sleep at this point, but somehow adding a new medium made it awkward.<br />
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For my final attempt, I made a light pencil outline of an elephant, then filled it in with the word "elephant", layered in six of the eight available colours. For the eye, I began with the "e", then continued the rest of the word out to the edge of the forehead. In other places, I crammed the letters tightly, overlapping a <i>lot</i>. I found it surprisingly difficult not to end up with big lines where I didn't want them, but I was happy enough with the final result. <br />
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It's certainly not the most polished thing I've ever produced, but I rather like the concept, and will probably try it again as something a little larger.<br />
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When a 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal in April of this year, it destroyed villages, towns and cities. One of the most heartbreaking scenes of destruction was the Kathmandu Valley, where World Heritage Sites like Lalitpur's Patan Durbar Square were flattened in an instant.<br />
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Amid the destruction, however, this elephant survived. Taken by my friend Saša, who was covering the earthquake for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, it sat at the base of one of the square's four temples.<br />
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The temple, as you can see below, was utterly destroyed by the quake. It is astounding that the elephant survived—and survived intact, no less.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The destroyed temple.<br />
Photo: © Omar Havana/Getty Images<br />
Source: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/apr/29/nepal-earthquake-kathmandu-before-and-after-in-pictures">theguardian.com</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The same elephant in happier days.<br />
Photo: © Robert Preston<br />
Source: <a href="http://fineartamerica.com/featured/elephant-statue-in-durbar-square-in-patan-nepal-robert-preston.html">fineartamerica.com</a></td></tr>
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My sincere thanks to Saša for taking an elephant photo for me amidst scenes of unthinkable devastation. To see more of Saša's work, check him out on <a href="https://instagram.com/sasapetricic/">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://vimeo.com/sasapetricic">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<i>On June 11, the Nepalese government announced that it was reopening
Patan Durbar Square to visitors. UNESCO immediately raised concerns
regarding the safety of both monuments and people. The Nepalese
countered that all the requisite protective measures were in place, and
that they were going ahead. Not only will tourism bring in some welcome
funding, but it is also important to the Nepalese that some semblance of
normality be restored as quickly as possible.</i><br />
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Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-51536674852761733832015-06-13T13:43:00.002-07:002021-04-17T10:04:40.029-07:00Elephant No. 133: From the Archives: Playing Card<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's the weekend, and I'm taking it easy, so here is one of the early postings from the original Elephant a Day blog. Enjoy!</span></i><br />
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Today I felt like doing something quiet and sedentary, so I decided to make a traditional playing card.<br />
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Playing
cards were invented in Ancient China around the ninth century A.D. By
the eleventh century, they could be found throughout Asia, likely
transported along the Silk Road. Ancient Chinese "money cards" had four
suits: coins, strings of coins, myriads (10,000) of coins, and tens of
myriads. Some scholars believe that the first playing cards in China
might have been a form of actual currency. <br />
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Playing
cards came to Europe in the late fourteenth century, probably from
Mameluke Egypt. The Egyptian deck had 52 cards, with four suits: polo
sticks, coins, swords and cups. Each suit had ten number cards,
featuring "pips" or suit symbols. There were also three "court" cards:
King, Deputy King and Under-Deputy.<br />
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The Egyptian deck
may have influenced the design of East Indian cards, although some
suggest that it might have been the other way around. Early Indian cards
are quite distinctive: they are circular, intricately hand-painted, and
have anywhere from eight to thirty-two suits.<br />
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Nineteenth century<br />
Los Angeles County Museum of Art<br />
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By the late fourteenth century,
the use of playing cards had spread across Europe. The earliest cards
were individually handmade and expensive; however, by the fifteenth
century, decks printed from woodcuts had begun to appear. Most early
woodcuts were coloured after printing, either by hand or using a
stencil. A deck usually had four suits, although five suits were also
common. In Germany, the suits were hearts, bells, leaves and acorns.
Italian and Spanish cards used swords, wands, cups and coins.<br />
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The four suits most commonly used today—hearts, spades, diamonds and clubs—originated in France around 1480. The club (<i>trèfle</i>,
or clover, in French) was likely derived from the acorn on German
cards; the spade, from the German leaf. Europeans also changed the court
cards to represent European royalty: originally with King, Knight and
Knave, and later with King, Queen and Jack. <br />
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At first,
the King was always the highest card. As time went on, the Ace took on
greater significance, eventually becoming the card with the greatest
value. Some have suggested that this concept was given a boost during
the French Revolution, when the peasantry wrested power from the
monarchy. <br />
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Court cards with mirror images were
invented in the late eighteenth century. This was so that players would
not be tempted to turn the court cards right side up, which might hint
at the cards they held. The use of the manufacturer's logo on the ace of
spades began during the
reign of James I of England (1556–1625), who passed a law requiring an
insignia to show that duty had been paid on the cards.
Duty was paid on playing cards in the
United Kingdom until 1960.<br />
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The most common size for
playing cards is 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches (poker size) or 2-1/4 x 3-1/2
inches (bridge size). Traditionally, the Jack
of Spades, Jack of Hearts, and King of Diamonds are drawn in
profile—these are the "one-eyed" cards. The rest of the court cards are
depicted full-face. The King of Hearts is the
only King with no mustache, and is also typically shown with a sword his
head, making him look as though he's stabbing himself. <br />
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For
today's elephant, I decided to make a standard poker-sized card, based
on the King of Hearts from the Bicycle Playing Card deck.<br />
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To
start, I traced around one of the Bicycle cards. Expecting that I would
screw up at least once, I made four blanks, all from inexpensive
bristol board.<br />
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In
order to create a mirror image of the Elephant King of Hearts, I drew a
line across the middle of the card, then sketched in the elephant.
Although I used the general idea of the King of Hearts from the Bicycle
deck, I decided not to have the elephant stabbing himself in the head
with a sword. Although the King of Hearts may traditionally be nicknamed
the "suicide king", I didn't want a suicide elephant.<br />
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Drawing
a mirror image freehand is actually more difficult than you'd think.
Short of making a grid (which I knew I would greatly dislike), there's
no easy way of doing this. What worked best for me was to draw a bit of
the design on one half, then flip it around and draw as close to the
same thing as possible on the other half. I guess I was hoping my
fingers would have some sort of memory of what they'd just done. It
wasn't always as precise as I would have liked, but it came out close
enough.<br />
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I wanted something on the back as well, but the
Bicycle Poker Card design is beyond what I can do on such a small
surface with a limited amount of time. I did another mirror design with a
few nods to the idea behind the Bicycle design, but it's nowhere near
as detailed as the card that inspired it.<br />
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I
had originally planned to use drafting pens for this. I had blue, red
and black drafting ink on hand, and planned to fill the yellow in with
coloured pencil afterwards. Unfortunately, the blue ink was old and not
very cooperative, so after a few attempts with ink, I went with coloured
pencil instead. <br />
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I wanted to stick more or less with the same colours as are on the Bicycle cards, so that's the colour palette I used.<br />
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I
didn't get quite the crisp result I expected, but I certainly learned a
lot about drawing mirror images. And old ink. And the propensity of
coloured pencil to smudge. And how you can't erase lead pencil after
you've put coloured pencil in the same vicinity.<br />
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It was definitely an interesting exercise. Just don't expect a pack of Elephant Poker Cards anytime soon.<br />
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<b>Elephant Lore of the Day</b><br />
In
the French playing cards on which most modern decks are based, the King
of Hearts is said to depict Charlemagne, Emperor of the Franks.<br />
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In
A.D. 802, Charlemagne received an Asian elephant named Abul-Abbas from
the Caliph of Baghdad. Abul-Abbas was brought from Baghdad by a man
called Isaac, who had been sent to the Caliph on Charlemagne's orders.
Following the deaths of the two other emissaries sent to Baghdad with
him, Isaac returned alone with the elephant. The journey took many
months: first by land along the Egyptian coast and across modern Algeria
and Tunisia, then by sea from Tunisia to Europe.<br />
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Abul-Abbas
was a big hit in his new home, and was exhibited many times at court.
He was eventually housed in Augsburg, in today's southern Bavaria.
Sadly, Abul-Abbas died of pneumonia when he was in his forties, likely
from swimming in the Rhine. His bones were preserved at Lippenham,
Denmark until the eighteenth century.<br />
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Some say that
Abul-Abbas was an albino elephant. Legend also suggests that he was used
as a war elephant in A.D. 804, when the Franks were attacked by the
Danes. Mobilizing his troops, Charlemagne is said to have asked that
Abul-Abbas be sent to him, so that the elephant could take part in the
battle.<br />
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Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-47838286499807466412015-06-12T14:41:00.001-07:002021-04-17T10:05:01.720-07:00Elephant No. 132: Tusker Earrings<br />
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I picked these up recently at <a href="http://www.equator.ca/">Equator Coffee Roasters</a> in my favourite nearby village of <a href="http://almonte.com/">Almonte</a>. I love Equator for being truly fair trade and for ploughing a lot of money back into the developing world.<br />
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I noticed these as Terrence was buying a pound of coffee, and had to have them, partly because they have Tusker beer caps, featuring elephants, and partly because they're just plain fun.<br />
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The company name Takataka literally means "trash" in Kiswahili, and the
earrings were produced in Kisumu, Kenya, by local artisan groups known
for turning trash into treasure. For more on the fair trade Takataka
Collection, click <a href="http://www.globalcraftsb2b.com/store/pc/About-Global-Crafts-d1.htm">here</a>. <br />
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The story of how <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusker_%28beer%29">Tusker Beer</a> came to use an elephant as its symbol is a bit odd—to me, at least. Brewed by Kenya Breweries (now East African Breweries), the elephant commemorates a death. And this time, not the death of an elephant.<br />
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Originally owned by brothers George and Charles Hurst, Kenya Breweries was established in 1922. In 1923, George went on one of his periodic big-game hunting expeditions, this time hunting elephants. Instead of bagging his expected trophy, however, he was killed by an elephant near Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika. History is sketchy on the precise manner of Hurst's death, but in his brother's honour, Charles named the first batch of beer, "Tusker". <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: Tim Bishop/Diageo<br />Source: <a href="http://content.time.com/time/travel/cityguide/article/0,31489,1974866_1974860_1974816,00.html"><i>TIME</i></a></td></tr>
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The word "tusker" itself is a rather quaint nickname for African elephants, most of which have large tusks. In India, however, the term "tusker" is generally limited to male elephants, as female Asian elephants are tuskless.<br />
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I love these earrings, and may even try to make something like this myself someday. In the meantime, however, I'm happy to support artisans who can take recycled wire from car engines, seed beads, and Tusker bottle caps, and turn them into these eccentric little works of art.<br />
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<b>Elephant Lore of the Day</b></div>
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In April of this year, a young bull elephant killed professional hunter Ian Gibson in northeastern Zimbabwe. At the time, Gibson wasn't even tracking elephants, but lions.<br />
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Gibson, who was working for Chifuti Safaris, was scouting for lions on behalf of an American hunter. While tracking lions in the Zambezi Valley, he encountered a young bull elephant, likely in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musth">musth</a>. Elephants in musth are dangerous and highly unpredictable, and this one was no exception. Charging Gibson—who managed a single rifle shot—the elephant knocked Gibson down, then knelt on him, crushing him to death.<br />
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Zimbabwe is said to be overpopulated with elephants at the moment, which is why hunting is permitted. Ironically, when funds for wildlife protection are limited, hunters are often a country's best line of defence against poachers. In areas where elephants are plentiful enough that hunting is allowed, poaching is also rampant. Hunters are often the first to learn of poachers in a given area, and are thus often the first to force them to clear off.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adolescent African elephant.<br />Photo: Per-Gunnar Ostby/©pgoimages.com<br />Source: <a href="http://www.theanimalfiles.com/mammals/elephants/african_elephant.html">theanimalfiles.com </a></td></tr>
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Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-62581811166731869192015-06-11T15:45:00.001-07:002021-04-17T10:05:23.588-07:00Elephant No. 131: From the Archives—Altoids Tin Diorama<br />
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Over
the past several years, people have been using Altoids tins to make
lots of interesting things, from tiny amplifiers to little shrines to
homes for itty-bitty animals. So today, I thought I'd try making
something using an Altoids tin.<br />
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Altoids are strong
breath mints that were first produced in England in the 1780s. Billed as
the "Original Celebrated Curiously Strong Mints", Altoids are
characterized by a high proportion of peppermint oil.<br />
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Interestingly,
Altoids are harder to find in Britain than in the other countries to
which they are exported. They have never been heavily marketed in
Britain; however, in the United States they are so popular that the
brand's owner moved Altoids production to Chattanooga, Tennesee, to be
nearer the primary market.<br />
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In addition to the
traditional mints—currently available in seven breath-freshening
flavours—Altoids makes sour hard candies in round tins. Other items such
as chewing gum, chocolate-dipped mints, and breath strips have also
been marketed over the years, but have since been discontinued.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A selection of Altoid tins.<br />
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In addition to the mints, many
people buy Altoids simply to get the handy little tins. Some people use
them as simple containers for household items such as paper clips,
little sewing kits and coins. Others use them as ashtrays, miniature
survival kits and first aid kits.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Typical Altoids survival kit.<br />
Source: http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/survival/food/<br />
2006/08/make-survival-kit-out-altoids-tin-and-two-more-life-saving-diy-</td></tr>
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And then there are the people
who think up wild and woolly ways of using Altoids tins. Even the most
rudimentary online search for "Altoids tin" turns up inventive uses such
as working amplifiers, flashlights, speakers, a thumb piano, a crystal
radio, a barbecue grill, and even a projector.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Altoids tin projector, made by Leonidas Tolias.<br />
Source: http://www.leonidastolias.com/Site/Pocket_Projector.html</td></tr>
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Altoids tins are also a
favourite plaything for artists. Shrines, dioramas, shadowboxes, zen
gardens, coin purses, mouse houses and picture frames are just a few of
the uses I've seen.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elaborate altered Altoids tin by Laura Carson, 2011.<br />
Source: http://artfullymusing.blogspot.ca/search/label/Altoids%20Tins</td></tr>
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Although
I'm a sucker for any kind of tin container, I only have two actual
Altoid tins: one really small tin, and a regular-sized one. I had no
idea what I was going to make for today's elephant, but I thought the
larger tin might be more practical.<br />
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At
first, I wasn't sure what kind of thing to produce. I'm by no means an
electronic genius, or I would have tried to figure out how to make
something that trumpeted like an elephant when the tin was opened. Or
that lit up. Or that featured a little dancing elephant. I thought about
making a little stuffed elephant tucked up in bed, but I didn't feel
like sewing today. I felt like drawing and cutting things out, so I
decided I would do some kind of elephant diorama, since I'm quite taken
with mixed-media art created inside Altoid tins.<br />
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I
determined at the outset that I didn't want to paint or otherwise alter
the exterior of the tin. This wasn't laziness on my part, as much as a
desire to preserve the original look of the tin. So I turned my
attention to the insides.<br />
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A couple of days ago, a
friend suggested that when I finish this yearlong adventure I should go
bond with some elephants in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater. Just in case I
can't afford it right away, I thought I'd try and make a mini-diorama
of a similar scene to tide me over.<br />
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I traced out two
shapes from artist-quality bristol board to fit into the upper and lower
lids of the tin. Because I needed a backdrop for my scene, I then
looked online for photographs of the landscape in the Ngorongoro Crater.
This is what I came up with, although I won't put in quite so many
trees.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elephant in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania.<br />
Photo: © Blake Harrington III<br />
Source: http://blaineharrington.photoshelter.com/image/I0000uCj6rW1hJ4s</td></tr>
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I drew everything first. For
the upper lid, I drew a sort of postcard scene, with Mount Kilimanjaro
in the background. Having never been to Tanzania, I'm not sure you can
actually see Kilimanjaro from inside the crater, so I may be taking a
bit of artistic license here. There are photos online that suggest that
Kilimanjaro is visible from Ngorongoro, but you can't believe every
caption you read.<br />
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For the lower section, I didn't draw
anything, since I planned to paint the background freehand, along with a
framing strip to go around the inside of the wall of the tin. <br />
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Next,
I tried to figure out how many little figures I should insert into the
scene. I wanted to stagger their placement in foreground and background,
but it's a very shallow space, so I didn't go overboard. I drew the
figures onto the same bristol board.<br />
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I
heat-set all the drawings with a hairdryer, then painted everything. In
the process, I added narrow tabs at the bottom of the little figures,
so that they would stand up when affixed to the tin.<br />
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When
everything was dry, I started by glueing the Kilimanjaro scene into the
upper lid with double-sided tape. I did the same with the backdrop in
the lower section, and added the framing strip all the way around. I had
goofed a bit on one side of the framing strip, in terms of where the
sky met the ground, but it wasn't horrendous.<br />
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After
this, I cut out all the little bits, pre-folding the lower tabs against a
metal ruler. I then glued each of the tabs with a glue stick, and
placed them in what I thought was a pleasing arrangement on the lower
part of the framing strip. I laid them flat to apply them, then folded
each piece forward and creased it sharply.<br />
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It
took me a while to make all of this, but it wasn't particularly
difficult. And I didn't really mind, because it was the kind of thing I
felt like doing today.<br />
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Although
I wasn't sure when I started how well this would turn out, I'm happy
with the final piece. In fact, I may just have to go out and buy some
more Altoids, just to get the tins.<br />
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<b>Elephant Lore of the Day</b><br />
When she arrived at the <a href="http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/our-history">Bristol Zoological Gardens</a>
in 1868, Zebi was the largest Asian elephant in captivity. Standing
three metres (ten feet) in height, Zebi had been sent as a gift to the
Zoo by the Maharaja of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysore">Mysore</a>.<br />
<b> </b><br />
Zebi
was a highly popular attraction at the time, particularly for her
antics. She was no respecter of persons or their possessions, and
appeared to take great delight in removing and eating whatever took her
fancy. She had a particular taste for the straw hats popular among both
men and women at the time. If she discovered a straw hat within reach of
her trunk, Zebi would blithely pluck it from the wearer's head and eat
it.<br />
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She also had an interest in wooden objects. Her
most famous acquisition was a cricket bat carried by a young boy.
Snatching the bat from the child, Zebi quickly reduced it to splinters,
then ate it.<br />
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Although later elephants acquired by the
Bristol Zoo gave rides to children, it doesn't appear as though Zebi
ever allowed riders on her back. Sadly, following six months of ill
health, Zebi was euthanized in 1910.<br />
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Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-58772982667290896752015-06-10T15:28:00.001-07:002021-04-17T10:05:45.848-07:00Elephant No. 130: Quick Sketch for the #Elegram Project<br />
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For today's elephant, I did a quick sketch with coloured pencils. Although I didn't have a lot of time today, I wanted to produce something in support of The Nature Conservancy's <a href="http://nature.org/elegram">#Elegram Project</a>, which aims at collecting 20,000 elephant images by the end of August 2015.<br />
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Why 20,000? Because that's the estimated number of baby
elephants born each year—elephants that deserve our protection. Once The Nature Conservancy reaches its target of 20,000 #elegrams, it
will receive a whopping $150,000 from private donors to help with
elephant conservation and anti-poaching initiatives in Africa. With elephants being killed at an estimated 100 per day in Africa, there
is no time to lose. <br />
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You can also take part in this great initiative. you don't need to be an artist, and you don't need to produce a polished
creation. All of the elephants I created for the original Elephant a
Day blog, as well the ones I created for this newer blog, have already
been uploaded. Some of them are truly hideous, and others are
ridiculous, but they all count. Yours counts too, so don't be shy.<br />
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To read more on the campaign, please click <a href="http://nature-africa.tumblr.com/post/99331215405/20-000-baby-elephants-getting-crafty-to-help-save">here</a>. And, if you're a resident of the United States, your #elegram also gives you a chance to win a great prize pack. For sweepstakes rules, please click <a href="http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/africa/explore/june-elegram-sweepstakes.xml?utm_campaign=social.nature&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=1433964337">here</a>.<br />
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<li>Make an elephant in any medium. Squish together something from clay or plasticene. Draw or paint with anything from magic markers to lipstick. Make a piece of jewellery, fibre art, a stuffed toy, a wire sculpture, soap, an apple pie. Anything goes, as long as it's an elephant. (And don't worry: you retain copyright to any elephant you create.)<br /> </li>
<li>Take a digital photograph of your creation, scan it, or save your digital art.<br /> </li>
<li>Go to the Nature Conservancy <a href="http://nature.org/elegram">#elegram webpage</a> and click on "Upload Your Elegram" at the bottom of the page.<br /> </li>
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Making an elephant—or two, or three, or twenty—may not seem like much, but there is strength in numbers. Every #elegram posted brings The Nature Conservancy in Africa closer to its goal, and closer to the resources it needs to keep the world's largest land animal from extinction in the wild. For status updates, you can follow the #Elegram Project on <a href="https://twitter.com/nature_africa">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tncafrica">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://instagram.com/nature_africa/">Instagram</a> and <a href="http://nature-africa.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a>.<br />
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Thank you. Africa's elephants thank you, too.<br />
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<i>Today's elephant lore is adapted from the original Elephant a Day blog.</i><br />
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In 1999, Iain Douglas-Hamilton and his team from Save the Elephants
tagged 14
African elephants with GPS collars, and monitored their movements over a
period of several months. The resulting data revealed an fascinating
phenomenon: elephants sometimes plan their migrations with almost
military precision.<br />
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Some of the most interesting data
came from a small herd in Laikipia in northern Kenya. The three members
of this herd—a male and two females—remained in one place during the
day, grazing happily. At nightfall, however, they often sprinted as far
as 20 kilometres (12.5 miles) under cover of darkness.<br />
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first, researchers were mystified. Elephants will normally move just a
short distance away once they've exhausted a grazing area. These
elephants were making mad late-night dashes. Although elephants often
range across vast distances, it is highly unusual for them to run so far
and so fast at night.<br />
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Then the team realized that the
places in which the elephants stayed during the day were usually
national parks or game preserves, where anti-poaching patrols are
frequent. The places they crossed in a hurry were places where heavy
poaching had occurred.<br />
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It is still unknown how
elephants can tell the difference. There are no fences or demarcations
to indicate areas in which poaching is prohibited, and encounters
between a specific herd and poachers are not frequent enough to allow
the elephants to develop an accurate map of where danger lies.<br />
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is believed that elephants are likely combining their own experiences
with the experiences of others. This knowledge is then communicated
using a large repertoire of vocalizations, often over vast distances.
Researchers are still astonished, however, at how precisely elephants
stay within safe zones, suggesting that their conversations and spatial
knowledge are far more sophisticated than anyone realized.<br />
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Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-46462358345044333722015-04-24T15:04:00.002-07:002021-04-17T10:06:11.943-07:00Elephant No. 129: Cheapo Oil Pastels<br />
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As many of you may know by now, I'm a sucker for anything that comes in a bunch of colours. So how could I possibly resist a set of 24 oil pastels for two dollars from the dollar store? Clearly, I couldn't.<br />
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It's not like I don't have other oil pastels, dry pastels, Conté crayon, watercolour pastels, and probably any other kind of pastel you care to name (except cake pastels, which are next on my list). But this has 24 colours, and even comes with its own holder and sharpener. I have a visceral dislike of pastel and chalk on my fingers, so this is a definite bonus.<br />
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So that I could at least pretend that this was a sensible purchase, I decided to draw an elephant with this new set. I had no idea what to expect, but the pastels looked a bit dry, so I assumed they'd fall somewhere between a dry pastel and a true oil pastel.<br />
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The texture turns out to be something like a chalky, slightly moist crayon. And I actually quite liked these. My first drawing was just a quick throwaway sketch to test the way these worked. I'm not good with oil pastels, so I had no expectations at all.<br />
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Next, I decided to try drawing from a photograph to see if I could create something more detailed. This was the photograph I used.<br />
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I began with yellow, red and orange, then blended it a bit with a <a href="http://www.stormthecastle.com/fantasyartschool/artlessons/blending-with-a-tortillon.htm">tortillon</a>. The pinkish background is because the inexpensive sketchpad paper has a pink undertone.<br />
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While I liked this, I thought it needed the faintest bit of black, so I used a fine-tipped gel pen to scribble in a few lines, wrinkles and spots. You can see the final result below.<br />
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I didn't expect much from a box of oil pastels that cost a mere two dollars, but I was pleasantly surprised. And this drawing took me less than two hours, which is always a bonus. I now think that I need to buy a second set of these cheapos, just so that I don't run out.<br />
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People tend to think of elephants as full-speed-ahead animals, capable of crashing through streams, up and down hills, and through fields, fences and walls. But sometimes an elephant can get itself into a jam that it just can't get out of on its own. Holes—particularly holes filled with mud—pose a particular challenge.<br />
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This story was sent to me by my friend and neighbour Maureen. In early March of this year, an elephant got stuck in the mud near Makindu in Southern Kenya. Sinking into a veritable quicksand of soupy clay, the elephant was unable to climb the steep sides of the hole, despite the best efforts of rangers from the Kenya Wildlife Service.<br />
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The elephant remained stuck for 12 hours before being saved by a Chinese construction company working nearby. A backhoe operator carefully created a long channel, providing the exhausted elephant with a way out. The video is embedded below. To read more, including a link to still photographs, click <a href="http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/elephant-stuck-in-mud-helped-by-construction-company/">here</a>.<br />
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<b> </b>Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-77650291310398585102015-04-23T15:17:00.002-07:002021-04-17T10:06:33.083-07:00Elephant No. 128: Three Little Purses<br />
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While sorting through a bunch of stuff as part of my spring cleaning, I came across this trio of cute little purses. I've had them all for a number of years now, but use them sparingly — mostly because they don't hold a lot, and because I'm definitely a messenger-bag kind of girl.<br />
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I picked up this beaded change purse in London nearly ten years ago, from a street vendor near Blackfriars Bridge. It doesn't look much like an elephant, but I kind of like the abstract oddity of it.<br />
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I picked up this funky square bag — with tiny bells, no less — a few years back at a local fair trade shop called <a href="http://www.tenthousandvillages.ca/">Ten Thousand Villages</a>.<br />
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And this pretty little number was a gift from my friend Cynthia, with the hopeful suggestion that I could use it to carry just my phone, some cash and a credit card. Instead, in hangs on display near my desk.<br />
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The first is Chinese in manufacture; the second two are Indian, but all of them are handmade, and they're all cute enough that they're never going out the door with my yearly cast-offs.<br />
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<b>Elephant Lore of the Day</b><br />
Today is YouTube's tenth birthday. I didn't know this, but my friend Lo pointed out this morning that the world's very first YouTube video featured—you guessed it—elephants.<br />
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In the 19-second video—titled simply "Me at the zoo"—YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim stands in front of an elephant enclosure and says a few words about the elephants behind him. The video is embedded below. To read more about Karim and YouTube's début, click <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/first-youtube-video-2015-4">here</a>.<br />
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Happy Birthday, YouTube! And cool about the elephants.<br />
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<br />Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-21751077256039441182015-04-22T16:31:00.001-07:002021-04-17T10:06:49.923-07:00Elephant No. 127: Little Telephone Wire Elephant<br />
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On the way back from taking my car in for spring servicing today, I noticed a pile of colourful wire scraps on the ground. The pile was in front of a telephone switching box, so I assumed it was left over from recent work.<br />
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My first thought was, "I wonder where I can get coloured wire like that for jewellery-making?" My second thought was, "Go back and pick it up, because you could probably make a wee elephant out of it." So that's exactly what I did.<br />
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I washed it to remove any residual cooties, then assessed what I had. It wasn't a lot to work with, but I figured I could do something. <br />
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<br /><br />I began by making a body and legs, without much real attention to detail. As long as it stood up, I was happy.<br />
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To finish it and use up every last bit of wire, I took whatever was left of the yellow and began wrapping it around willy nilly.<br />
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It's not the best wire elephant I've ever made, but I kind of like it. It only took me about 15 minutes, measures a mere 1-1/2 inches (3.8 cm) from tip of the trunk to tip of the tail, and it's concocted of sidewalk litter. I wasn't looking for an Earth Day project, but perhaps one was looking for me.<br />
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Since it's Earth Day, please spare a thought for endangered pachyderms around the world. Several species of rhinoceros (yes, they're also pachyderms) have become extinct in the past few years, and <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038639/Last-male-northern-white-rhino-guard-24-hours-day-ivory-horn-removed-bid-deter-Kenyan-poachers.html">the world's last male Northern White Rhino</a> has not only been stripped of his horn for his own safety, but lives under constant armed guard.<br />
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As for elephants, the African elephant is under such threat from ivory poachers that, although its current population is estimated at 400,000, it could become extinct by 2020. Asian elephants are similarly under threat from factors such as habitat loss and human-elephant conflict.<br />
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Please spare a thought as well for the brave and committed men and women who devote their lives to protecting wildlife. It isn't an easy job, particularly on the front lines in the war between poachers and conservationists. Poachers are now well funded and highly organized, and have no compunction about killing rangers who get in their way. In Kenya alone, as of October 2013, more than 60 <a href="http://www.pri.org/stories/2013-10-08/rangers-kenya-are-outgunned-new-poaching-arms-race">rangers had been killed protecting wildlife</a>.<br />
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I used to work with Jacinthe, but had no idea all those years ago that she was also a painter. Over the past few months, she's been posting some of her paintings online — then suddenly, this lovely elephant!<br />
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Although Jacinthe doesn't consider herself an artist, has never taken art classes, and has never painted or drawn an elephant, on her first attempt she came up with this cheerful and colourful work, called <i>How Can You Tell that an Elephant Has Been in Your Garden?</i> <br />
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Jacinthe says the painting was inspired by two things. The first was the old joke, "How can you tell that an elephant has been in your refrigerator? By the footprints in the butter." Which she then extrapolated to "How can you tell that an elephant has been in your garden? By the footprints in the buttercups!"<br />
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The second was the work of Canadian artist Maud Lewis. In the late 1990s, when Jacinthe was a communications officer at the Canadian Museum of History, the exhibition <i>The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis</i> was one of her files. As Jacinthe says:<br />
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<i>What a privilege it was to learn more about this wonderful person and artist. Her works exhibit an extraordinary use of colour, and it always fascinated me that she did not only paint on canvas. Her works of art also brightened her home — on her front door, on a dustpan, on a baking tin, and even on the shells of Digby scallops. In my home I have a framed copy of the exhibition poster to remind me that it is the simple things in life that are the most beautiful.</i> </blockquote>
Maud Lewis (1903–1970) is one of Canada's best-known and best-loved folk artists. Born in rural Nova Scotia, Canada, she learned to paint as a child, when her mother taught her to make watercolour Christmas cards.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Two Oxen in Spring</i>, no date<br />Maud Lewis (1903–1970)<br />Oil on board<br />Private Collection<br />Source: <a href="http://www.westbridge-fineart.com/site/past_auctions_artist.php?artistID=384">Westbridge Fine Art</a></td></tr>
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Maud suffered from rheumatoid arthritis early in life, and lived with her parents until she was in her early thirties. At the age of 34, Maud married a fish pedlar named Everett Lewis. She began accompanying Everett on his daily rounds, selling fish door to door, while also selling her hand-drawn and hand-painted Christmas cards for 25 cents apiece — a fairly good price at the time.<br />
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Maud's cards proved so popular with her husband's customers that she branched out into other subject matter. Painting on everything from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaverboard">beaverboard</a> to cookie sheets, Maud began producing bright and cheerful scenes of flowers, animals, and outdoor scenes. Her husband encouraged her, buying her a set of oil paints, and Maud soon covered every available surface in their tiny home.<br />
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Interestingly, Maud never mixed colours, instead using them directly out of the tube. Her paintings are usually no bigger than 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm), although a few top out at 24 x 36 inches (61 x 91 cm).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Road Block</i>, ca. 1962<br />Maud Lewis (1902–1970)<br />Oil on board<br />Private Collection<br />Source: <a href="http://www.mayberryfineart.com/artwork/AW23794">Mayberry Fine Art</a></td></tr>
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Sadly, Maud would live most of her life in poverty. By 1945, people were stopping at her home to buy paintings for two or three dollars. Even towards the end of her life — despite national exposure in print and broadcast media — her paintings were still selling for only about ten dollars apiece, and her arthritis prevented her from producing as many works as she might have wished. Today, her paintings routinely sell for $20,000 or more.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Black Kittens</i>, ca. 1964<br />Maud Lewis (1903–1970)<br />Oil on board<br />Private Collection<br />Source: <a href="http://www.mayberryfineart.com/artist/maud_lewis/portfolio?p=2">Mayberry Fine Art</a></td></tr>
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During the last year of her life, Maud stayed in a corner of her house — the same tiny home she and Everett had always owned — painting frequently between trips to the hospital. She died on July 30, 1970. Everett was killed nine years later, when a burglar murdered him during an attempted robbery. The Lewis house quickly began to deteriorate. Fortunately, a group of concerned local citizens saved the landmark, and in 1984 it was transferred to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax, where it has been restored as part of a permanent Maud Lewis exhibit.<br />
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I like that Jacinthe channelled Maud Lewis for her elephant painting, and I think she did an amazing job capturing the essence of Lewis's work. Jacinthe is genuinely one of the nicest and most cheerful people I've ever met, and the bright colours and simple composition of this painting make me happy every time I look at it — partly because they remind me of her sunny personality.<br />
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The original photograph is actually of Dame Daphne Sheldrick, who has dedicated her entire adult life to the welfare of orphaned elephants. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (named for her late husband) near Nairobi, Kenya, rehabilitates traumatized elephant calves before returning them to the wild. <br /><br />
At the Wildlife Trust, orphaned baby
elephants are kept in a stable each night. These are elephants that are
still too young and too milk-dependent to be permanently returned to the
wild. Because the babies need to be fed at three-hour
intervals, keepers sleep in bunks above each elephant's stall. A
different keeper is assigned each night to prevent the elephants — and
keepers — from becoming too attached.<br />
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elephants remain nonchalant about different keepers, they are quite firm
on feeding times. When speaking with <i>National Geographic</i> writer Charles
Siebert in 2011, one keeper commented that there was no need for an
alarm clock to know when it was time for night feedings. Every three
hours, the elephants would reach up their trunks and pull the blankets
off of the keepers sleeping above them.<br />
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To read more about Dame Daphne Sheldrick, check out her autobiography, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Life-Elephants-African-Story/dp/1250033373/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429653627&sr=8-1&keywords=dame+daphne+sheldrick">Love, Life and Elephants: An African Love Story</a>.</i> For more on the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, please click <a href="http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/">here</a>.<br />
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This little guy showed up anonymously on my doorstep this morning. He was huddled against the doorframe, undoubtedly trying to stay warm on a miserably damp, cold day.<br />
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I love elephants, and I love containers, so this was a lovely treat. I have no idea who it's from, but it was a fantastic surprise, and made my day. Thank you, whoever you are!<br />
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Today's elephant lore is a sweet video of a baby elephant playing with a
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantswithoutborders.org/donate.php">Elephants Without Borders</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.savetheelephants.org/">Save the Elephants</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantconservation.org/">International Elephant Foundation</a> <a href="http://www.elephantsworld.org/en/Donate.html">Elephant's World (Thailand) </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/howyoucanhelp.htm">David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/">Elephant Nature Park (Thailand)</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.wti.org.in/pages/about-wti.html">Wildlife Trust of India</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blesele.org/how_to_help/">Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary (Thailand)</a><br /><a href="http://www.wildlifesos.org/donate">Wildlife SOS (India) </a><br /><a href="https://www.elephants.com/estore/views.php?cat=6%5E21&sub_link=membership&desc=Membership%20and%20Donations&menu_oid=6">The Elephant Sanctuary (Tennessee)</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.davidshepherd.org/help-us/donate/">David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation</a></span></div>
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<a href="https://biglife.org/donations"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Big Life Foundation</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.theasianelephantfoundation.org/donate-participate">The Asian Elephant Foundation</a></span></div>
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<br />Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-68143362366733655612015-02-11T15:33:00.002-08:002021-04-17T10:07:51.309-07:00Elephant No. 124: Jean-Michel Basquiat Elephant<br />
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Last week, I edited an article on the new <a href="http://www.ago.net/basquiat">Basquiat retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario</a> (AGO), and it occurred to me that it might be interesting to try and create a Basquiat elephant.<br />
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<a href="http://basquiat.com/">Jean-Michel Basquiat</a> (1960–1988) was born and bred in New York City. He first came to fame in the late 1970s as a member the graffiti group <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMO">SAMO</a>. Blending street art with hip-hop and post-punk, Basquiat was soon exhibiting in major galleries and museums around the world. The first retrospective of his work was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City in 1992.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Untitled (Fallen Angel)</i>, 1981<br />Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988)<br />Acrylic and mixed media on canvas<br />Source: <a href="http://www.indiecolors.com/blog/arte/basquiat-el-arte/">indiecolors.com</a></td></tr>
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Something of a child prodigy, Basquiat could read and write by the age of four, and was fluent in three languages by the age of eleven. His artistic ability was evident early on, and was encouraged by both his mother and his teachers.<br />
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At fifteen, Basquiat ran away from home. Returned to his father within a week, he later dropped out of school, at which point his father banished him from returning. Basquiat eked out a living selling t-shirts and homemade postcards, while staying on friends' couches.<br />
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In 1976, Basquiat and a friend began spraypainting graffiti on buildings in Lower Manhattan, often with cryptic messages. Three years later, Basquiat began appearing on a local television show, and played a local bar with his "noise rock" band, Test Pattern, showing pictures of his art at band gigs.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Untitled (Fishing)</i>, 1981<br />Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988)<br />Acrylic and mixed media on canvas<br />Source: <a href="http://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-michel-basquiat/fishing">wikiart.org</a></td></tr>
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By the early 1980s, he was being asked to take part in group exhibitions, and had his first solo show in March 1981. That same year, his work was featured in the prestigious magazine, <i>Artforum</i>, and his career took off. In 1983, he even collaborated with Andy Warhol on a series of paintings. <br />
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In 1985, he was featured on the cover of the <i>New York Times Magazine</i>; but privately he had begun to unravel. As his heroin addiction worsened, he destroyed a number of relationships with gallery owners and others. After Warhol died in 1987, Basquiat began isolating himself even more, and had essentially started to self-destruct.<br />
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Although he made a serious attempt at sobriety in Hawaii in 1987, Basquiat was found dead of a heroin overdose on August 16, 1988. He was only 27.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Bird on Money</i>, 1981<br />Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988)<br />
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas<br />
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Despite his relatively short career, Basquiat has had a major influence on contemporary art. His style was unusual for its time, and had a take-no-prisoners attitude towards social issues such as poverty, racism, and class struggles. He combined bold graphics with text that was sometimes obscure, and sometimes taken directly from commercial packaging, advertising slogans and even children's picture books.<br />
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In 1996, artist Julian Schnabel made a feature film called <i>Basquiat</i>, and in 2009, Tamra Davis debuted a documentary called <i>Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child</i> at the Sundance Film Festival. He has also been referenced by other visual artists, and a number of recording artists.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Trumpet</i>, 1984<br />Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988)<br />
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas<br />
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By 2002, Basquiat's work was selling in the low seven figures. The highest price paid for a Basquiat to date, however, is a record $48,843,750 paid for <i>Dustheads</i> at auction in 2013.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Dustheads</i>, 1982<br />Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988)<br />
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I'm no expert on Basquiat, although I love his work. A quick study of his visuals, however, gave me a few hooks I could use to produce some sort of elephant homage: a limited palette in each work, splashes of bold colour, lots of scrawled black and white lines and cryptic text. So all of that went into the design of my Basquiat elephant.<br />
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I decided to paint on a piece of artist-quality bristol board measuring 11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.5 cm). I began by splashing on some broad strokes of colour. Because Basquiat seemed to like various shades of mid-blue, I started with that as my main colour. I never slop paint on like this, so it was kind of fun.<br />
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Since he also seemed to like a lot of yellow and a sort of salmon-tinged red, I used those next.<br />
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Finally, since I planned to write a few words on the final work, I added some areas of white. For the rest of the white and black, as well as any accent colours, I planned to use markers.<br />
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I tried drawing on the blue central section next with a white paint marker, but was somewhat underwhelmed. I should have gone for an oil stick. Instead, I overpainted it with white acrylic paint.<br />
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After this, I used markers to draw in some evil poachers with guns, crowns (both because I like elephants with crowns, and because Basquiat often used crowns in his work), some words, and various other stuff. Many of the words were taken from quotations and poems about elephants. I think I would add different words and think the verbiage out a bit more if I were ever to try something like this again, but I'm not completely displeased with it. I also usually have much nicer printing, but I let it go for this.<br /><br />I added some splashes of red as well, because I wanted to add a bit of contrast and visual zing, as well as the hint of the relatively blood-soaked reality of today's elephants.<br />
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To finish up, I added some more scrawls and scribbles, and then let it be.<br />
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It's obviously nothing like an actual Basquiat, but it was an interesting exercise, and so far out of my comfort zone that it was kind of fun. I also have a new appreciation for the skill behind his work. I always knew, as he famously reminded people, "Believe it or not, I can actually draw." What I didn't realize is how complicated and layered his compositions actually are. Hope there's a catalogue for the AGO retrospective that I can buy.<br />
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Elephants are highly social creatures, and function within tightly structured groups. When that structure is disrupted, however, elephants can go off the rails.<br />
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In the late 1990s, rangers in South Africa's Pilanesberg Park suddenly began coming across white rhinos that had been brutally attacked and killed. Because the horns had been left behind, they knew poachers weren't to blame.<br />
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Instead, it was soon discovered that a group of elephant delinquents had begun picking off their fellow pachyderms. This is extremely abnormal among properly socialized elephants; unfortunately, this group had been left essentially without adult supervision from a very young age.<br />
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The problem originated in a major elephant cull 20 years earlier. In South Africa's Kruger National Park, elephant populations had grown too large for the park to support. Because there was no way of relocating large adult elephants back then, a number of adult elephants were killed, while the babies were saved. The babies were then taken to other parks, such as Pilanesberg. At the time, the supervising veterinarian worried that the baby elephants might not be properly socialized without adults to show the way, but there was no other option.<br />
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The cull was nothing short of catastrophic. Elephants learn from one another, passing down knowledge from mother to child. In effect, an entire generation of traumatized orphan elephants had been thrown together without adult supervision. And 20 years later, they were essentially troubled teens with raging hormones. In elephants, raging hormones generally lead to murderous behaviour—in this case, taking the form of rhino murder.<br />
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At their wits' end, rangers feared they would have to shoot the rogue elephants. Luckily, someone raised the idea of bringing in older bull elephants to teach the teenagers some manners. By 1998, rangers from Kruger National Park had figured out how to transport fully-grown adult elephants, and brought some older bull elephants to Pilanesberg.<br />
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The older elephants quickly established a pecking order, which also has the net effect of reducing a younger elephant's hormone levels. As one ranger put it, it was like suddenly confronting a group of out-of-control teenagers with their fathers.<br />
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I was in a thrift store earlier today and found some bags of foam blocks. My first thought was that they would be great for carving into stamps. At $1.99 a bag, they were inexpensive enough that I bought a few different shapes.<br />
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I decided to make something small, so I chose the round yellow shape, which is a little over an inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. I began by drawing a design on the end, using a plain HB pencil.<br />
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Taking a craft knife, I began cutting away everything that wasn't the elephant. It didn't take long—way less time than either lino or the <a href="http://elephantaday.blogspot.ca/2011/12/elephant-no-74-linocut.html">rubber lino</a> substitute—but, because it's springy, it sometimes caught on the blade.<br />
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To make some of the lines a little more defined, I used a nail file to squish them down a bit. The final stamp looked kind of cute, I thought.<br />
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I started by pressing the stamp into a thin layer of acrylic paint. This was a bad idea, because the paint tended to collect along the edges and in the cracks, making for a very messy impression when I used the stamp on paper.<br />
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Next, I tried some actual printing ink and a brayer to roll the ink onto the stamp. This made a cleaner impression, but not as crisp as I would have liked. The series below is about all you get out of one thin layer of ink.<br />
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Because the foam is much softer than any actual lino material, my theory is that it can't be pressed too heavily into the paper, or it will smush and spread out the design. On the other hand, if you don't press with at least a bit of pressure, you get nothing.<br />
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In the end, I was much more enamoured with the stamp than with any of the impressions it produced. I will still try this again, perhaps with a bigger foam shape next time, but I'll leave the detailed work for proper lino blocks.<br />
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This story comes from a news clipping included in the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Behemoth-Elephant-Ronald-B-Tobias/dp/006224485X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423004436&sr=8-1&keywords=behemoth%2Bbook%2Belephant"><i>Behemoth: The History of the Elephant in America</i></a>, by Ronald B. Tobias.<br />
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In November 1865, a cantankerous Quaker known as Friend Shavery was sitting on a fence watching his bull snorting and pawing in a field, when an elephant from Van Amburg's Menagerie passed by. Expecting trouble between the bull and the elephant, named Tippoo Sahib, the elephant's keeper called out, "Take your bull out of the way!"<br /><br />Shavery was an unpleasant man, generally disliked in the county, and seems to have eagerly anticipated the outcome of a dust-up between Tippoo and the bull. "Proceed with thy elephant," he calmly replied.<br /><br />The elephant's keeper, a man called Nash, insisted that Shavery move the bull: "If you don't move that bull, he will get hurt."<br />
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Confident of his bull's ability to take on any elephant, Shavery replied: "Don't trouble thyself about the bull, but proceed with thy elephant." <br />
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Nash let Tippoo Sahib continue across the field. The bull charged at Tippoo. Tippoo didn't even break stride as he picked up the bull in his tusks, crushed its ribs and tossed it aside. The bull hit the ground head first, breaking its neck.<br /><br />"I'm afraid your bull has bent his neck a little," Nash shouted over his shoulder as he continued on his way.<br /><br />Enraged, Shavery shouted that his bull would have won if the elephant hadn't been so "hefty". To make sure Nash knew how displeased he was, Shavery added: "I was going to take my family to thy show, but I'll see thee and thy show blowed to blazes before I go one step!"<br />
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Nash's response is not recorded.<br />
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Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-19421596000368933052015-02-02T15:33:00.002-08:002021-04-17T10:08:27.112-07:00Elephant No. 122: Clothespin Critters<br />
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Although I've painted <a href="http://elephantaday.blogspot.ca/2012/09/elephant-no-342-clothes-pegs.html">clothes-peg elephants</a> and once tried (unsuccessfully) to make an elephant by attaching spring-loaded clothespins to one another, I like this version of clothespin art much better.<br />
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I was reminded of this idea in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Martha-Stewarts-Favorite-Crafts-Kids/dp/0307954749/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422919604&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=martha+stewar%27s+favorite+crafts+for+kids"><i>Martha Stewart's Favorite Crafts for Kids</i></a>, but I'd seen it before. The concept involves simply folding a piece of paper in half, cutting out an animal shape (keeping the fold intact), decorating both sides, then clipping on clothespins for legs. For a great tutorial on a more elaborate clothespin animal, click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7zpxjUPz_U">here</a>.<br />
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I had two kinds of wooden clothespins, so I decided to make an elephant using each.<br />
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The first thing I did was gauge the size of elephant I could make using each type of clothespin. The only thing you need to do after this is draw an elephant shape (without its legs, of course) and colour it in any way you like. To make the elephants sturdy enough to avoid flopping over, I used artist-quality bristol board.<br />
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I made these two. Usually the instructions say to colour both sides of the design, but I only had time to do one side of each. I used permanent markers in various colours, just for fun.<br />
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Once the designs were done, I cut them out and clipped the clothespins to the bottom. Most sources use only two clothespins, even for four-legged animals. I decided the elephants looked better with four.<br />
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I like the fact that I have a big elephant and a little elephant, and I like the highly unrealistic colours. Best of all, this was really simple, and would be a great activity for young children.<br />
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In 1886, James A. Byrne was commissioned by the Denver Soap Company to sculpt what was surely the largest bar of soap ever made. <br />
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Using 7,000 pounds of Denver Best Soap, Byrne created a life-sized elephant as the centrepiece of an exhibition promoting Colorado industry. As the <i>Rocky Mountain News</i> described the elephant:<br />
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There is little other information on whether it was an Asian or African elephant, nor how large it actually was. The trading card below commemorates the elephant, but hopefully it looked better than this.<br />
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The elephant cost a total of $300, which in today's dollars is equivalent to about $7,410.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blesele.org/how_to_help/">Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary (Thailand)</a><br /><a href="http://www.wildlifesos.org/donate">Wildlife SOS (India) </a><br /><a href="https://www.elephants.com/estore/views.php?cat=6%5E21&sub_link=membership&desc=Membership%20and%20Donations&menu_oid=6">The Elephant Sanctuary (Tennessee)</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.davidshepherd.org/help-us/donate/">David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation</a></span></div>
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<a href="https://biglife.org/donations"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Big Life Foundation</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.theasianelephantfoundation.org/donate-participate">The Asian Elephant Foundation</a></span></div>
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I have to admit that I didn't know the work of Aggie Zed before Ken Wilson sent me a photo, but now I'm hooked.<br />
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Dividing her working life between sculpture, painting and drawing, Aggie Zed describes her drawings and paintings as being "informed by a lifelong celebration of the beauty and strangeness of dreams, posed against the absurdity and poignancy of supposedly rational human activity." Playful yet vaguely unsettling, her work often includes animals as either observers or bewildered participants in some strange human pastime.<br />
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Pastel, ink and acrylic on paper<br />
Source: <a href="http://www.aggiezed.com/PAINTINGS_12_aggie_zed_horse_scrap_floats_sculptures.html">aggiezed.com</a></td></tr>
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Her sculpture similarly toys with reality, with human and animal figures that are vaguely "off". Humans bear the heads of animals, or have animals perched on their heads. Monochromatic men hold brightly coloured hand puppets. Animals mill about in groups.<br />
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Ceramic<br />
Source: <a href="http://www.aggiezed.com/FIGURES_aggie_zed.html">aggiezed.com</a></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Source: <a href="http://www.aggiezed.com/FIGURES_aggie_zed.html">aggiezed.com</a></td></tr>
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Source: <a href="http://www.aggiezed.com/FIGURES_aggie_zed.html">aggiezed.com</a></td></tr>
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What first caught Ken's eye, however, was one of Aggie Zed's "scrap floats". Made of various metal parts, wire, paint, and ceramics, these intriguing creations feature humans and/or animals deconstructed, reconfigured, floating, pinned to the ground, and integral to complicated machines that would give <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27813927">Heath Robinson</a> a run for his money.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Brainchild</i> by Aggie Zed<br />
Ceramic and mixed metal<br />
Source: <a href="http://www.aggiezed.com/SCRAP_FLOATS_21_aggie_zed_horse_scrap_floats_sculptures.html">aggiezed.com</a></td></tr>
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Because I love anything that looks mechanical, I gravitated to the scrap floats right away. Intended, as Aggie Zed says, "as entries in a parade of the future," they are both amusing and disturbing, while also quite beautiful.<br />
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Ceramic and mixed metal<br />
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<b>Elephant Lore of the Day</b></div>
For some reason, elephants have been wildly anthropomorphized throughout history. They've been given human emotions, have been <a href="http://elephantaday.blogspot.ca/2012/08/elephant-no-304-fabric-marker-on-t-shirt.html">dressed up in human clothes</a>, and have been made to carry out human activities.<br />
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I'm not a big fan of anthropomorphizing live animals. However, if an elephant is allowed to keep its dignity in a pretend tintype like the one below, perhaps it serves as a reminder that animals are not overgrown clowns, and that we may not be so different after all.<br />
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Source: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/158148299/8x10-hortence-j-pacadorf-elephant?ref=shop_home_feat_4">Etsy</a></td></tr>
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<br />Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-77909364076539518042015-01-31T13:09:00.001-08:002021-04-17T10:09:00.098-07:00Elephant No. 120: A New Elephant from Max<br />
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For their age—six—my next-door neighbours Max and Vanh are seriously talented artists. I've featured <a href="http://elephantaday2.blogspot.ca/2015/01/elephant-no-94-feature-artists-vanh-and.html">their art</a> before, but I just saw this new art from Max and asked his parents if I could feature it.<br />
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I'm not kidding when I say that it took me months to figure out how to
draw an elephant this well. Well done, Max! I look forward to seeing
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by Max<br />
Photo: Samantha</td></tr>
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<b>Elephant Lore of the Day</b></div>
I'm sure the answer to the question on Max's art is "No, this animal
does not live in the city." And these days, it doesn't, at least in the
West. But in the past, elephants could often be found within city limits
in Europe and North America. Attached to circuses and menageries, or
even working as movers and wrecking crews, urban elephants were once a
far more common sight than they are today.<br />
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In Florida, long the winter quarters for many American circuses, there
is still a law on the books related to elephants. If a person leaves an
elephant tied to a parking meter, and the meter has expired, a parking
fine must be paid, just as if the elephant were a car.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An Asian elephant stops a tram on Grays Inn Road, London, for an apple<br />
from the driver, December 1936.<br />
Source: <a href="http://london.metblogs.com/2009/08/17/hungry-elephant-in-the-city/">London.metblogs.com</a></td></tr>
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Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-20247335981468356362015-01-30T14:44:00.002-08:002021-04-17T10:09:17.474-07:00Elepant No. 119: Amigurumi Elephant<br />
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I have no idea if this is an actual amigurumi elephant, but it's little, cute, and crocheted, so I figure it's close enough.<br />
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I've decided that I don't love to crochet. I especially don't love to crochet with thread. <br />
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To make this little elephant, I began by looking for patterns online. I liked the look of some of the patterns, but I didn't like the results when I tried following the instructions. I'm not very good at following instructions at the best of times, so I decided to wing it.<br />
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I had bought these monster balls of crochet thread a few weeks ago. Why I thought I'd ever want this much crochet thread, I have no idea. I must have been attracted by the pretty colours and the price. They were very inexpensive at only five dollars apiece, but they're each about half the size of my head.<br />
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I began by making the elephant's ears.<br />
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I followed this by making a body, which I stuffed lightly. As I was finishing the crocheting of the body, I chained the end to make a short tail.<br />
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Next came the head. The trunk is just a crazy mess of I don't know what, but it turned out okay in the end.<br />
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To complete the elephant, I made four tubular legs. Can I say nightmare? It took me forever to figure out an appropriate size and shape, and they were a huge pain to make. The four legs took me longer than everything else put together.<br />
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I stitched everything together, adding a curve to the trunk, and adding largish seed beads for eyes. <br />
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Finally, because he looked a bit plain, I made him a tricorne. I essentially made a hat with a brim, then turned up the brim on three sides. To complete his look, I gave him a small bandana and a feather in his hat.<br />
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Every time I crochet something this small, I vow never again. And then I forget how much of a pain it was.<br />
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In the end, however, he's pretty cute, and that's what really matters.<br />
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This is surely one of the silliest depictions of a ruler ever. To symbolize his conquest of India, Demetrios I of Bactria commissioned portraits showing him wearing an elephant scalp. Not a sort of headdress. A scalp. <br />
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An elephant's head is massively bigger than a human's. This means that its scalp would likely cover most of the Bactrian emperor's body, rather than perching delicately on his head at some sort of rakish angle.<br />
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In addition, the weight of an elephant's head is considerable. This is not due only to the skull (although it's huge, of course) but to the weight of the trunk and the tusks. An elephant's trunk can weigh up to 310 pounds (140 kilograms), and the tusks of an adult male Asian elephant weigh up to about 100 pounds (45 kilograms). An elephant's ears are also surprisingly heavy, weighing as much as 110 pounds (50 kilograms) each for an African elephant—less for an Asian elephant. Demetrios is sporting all of the above.<br />
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Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art<br />
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But at least the type of elephant is correct. This is definitely an Asian elephant, and is surprisingly realistic for its time. During this period, elephants were generally depicted as canister vacuum cleaners with legs, so this is quite good.<br />
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Yes, I know it's meant to be symbolic. No doubt it was a clever bit of haberdashery or helmet-making, rather than an actual scalp. But when other figures — political, mythological or otherwise — are shown wearing bits of animals, particularly on their heads, the animals are usually to scale. Hercules wore a lion skin, his face poking out of the lion's jaws. Maya rulers wore jaguars. Native Americans sometimes wore wolf's heads. Demetrios, however, outdoes them all by plopping an elephant scalp on top of his curls. <br />
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Demetrios further celebrated his conquest of India, and his association with elephants, on some of his other coinage. My favourite is the rather pretty coin below, featuring a cheerfully disembodied elephant's head — again, surprisingly lifelike, given the period in which these were minted.<br />
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<br />Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-9024186057006223712015-01-29T15:16:00.001-08:002021-04-17T10:09:30.652-07:00Elephant No. 118: Amarula<br />
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I've been seeing billboards for this liqueur around town for the past couple of years, so I finally decided to buy some.<br />
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Amarula is made from the fruit of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclerocarya_birrea">Marula Tree</a> (Sclerocarya birrea), which is sometimes known as the Elephant Tree. The fruit is related to the mango, and is about the size of a small plum. Native to southeastern Africa, the fruit is described as having "a citrus tang with a creamy nutty taste."<br />
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Marula fruit ripens in mid-January to mid-March, when it is harvested by humans. It is also eaten by a wide range of animals, including rhinos, warthogs, baboons, monkeys, porcupine, zebra, antelopes—and of course elephants.<br />
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In addition to being a favourite fruit of African elephants, the marula has been dubbed the "fruit of kings." Some communities make a marula drink that is offered to the spirits of their ancestors. Among some peoples, the marula is known as the "marriage tree" and weddings are held in its shade. Some groups also light fires with marula twigs when babies are born, to give both baby and mother qualities such as tenderness.<br />
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Source: <a href="http://amarula.com/ca/natures#about-the-amarula">Amarula.com</a></td></tr>
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The tree has medicinal properties, partly due to the antihistamines contained in its bark and leaves. These are used to treat rheumatism, insect bites, skin infections and stomach problems. In addition, a decoction of the fruit is sometimes used to treat tick-infested livestock.<br />
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Oil from the fruit's kernel is used as a food supplement, and the kernels are often eaten whole or ground into porridge. The oil can also be used as a candle substitute. The skin of the fruit is often boiled to make a drink or a plant food, and the wood of the fallen tree is turned into furniture, bowls, and implements such as mortar and pestle.<br />
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So, what does it taste like? I'm not much for hard liquor and mixed drinks, but in the interests of research, I poured myself a swig.<br />
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It's actually very nice. It has the tastes of both fruit and cream, and is definitely strong. It's a bit like Bailey's Irish Cream, although a little more subtle. It's not too sweet or too cloying, and has a pleasant fruity aftertaste. I could be persuaded to quite like it.<br />
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I like that the back of the bottle has a wee elephant embossed into the shoulder.<br />
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And that the cap has an elephant on it.<br />
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To read more about the marula tree and Amarula liqueur, please visit the excellent <a href="http://amarula.com/ca/original#about-african-original">Amarula website</a>, which includes an extensive recipe book, as well as information on elephant welfare activities supported by the Amarula Trust.<br />
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My first thought when I saw the billboards for Amarula was, "Not that old chestnut. Elephants do <i>not </i>get drunk on marula fruit." I was wrong about the reason for the liqueur's name, but not wrong about the fact that elephants do not get drunk on fermented windfall marula.<br />
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As late as 2014, African travel brochures, tourists, and YouTube videos were suggesting that elephants got tipsy on the rotten, fermented marula they plucked from the ground. Because it's such a catchy idea—animals get drunk like us!—it's a concept that is proving surprisingly resilient.<br />
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As early as 2005, however, a <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1219_051219_drunk_elephant.html">study described in National Geographic</a> had effectively put that idea to rest. It was discovered that elephants don't actually go for the fruit that falls onto the ground. Instead, they pluck the fruit right from the tree, or shake the tree until fresh fruit falls. So, no fermented fruit for picky elephants with champagne tastes.<br />
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In addition, the fruit that the elephants <i>do </i>eat passes through their system too quickly to ferment even in their gut. This is, of course, assuming that an elephant could eat enough marula to produce an astonishing 7.1 gallons (27 litres) of fermented marula juice in its stomach, which is what it would take to make it drunk. Given that it takes 200 marula fruits to make one gallon, an elephant would have to ingest more than 1,400 marula fruits—all at the same time.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blesele.org/how_to_help/">Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary (Thailand)</a><br /><a href="http://www.wildlifesos.org/donate">Wildlife SOS (India) </a><br /><a href="https://www.elephants.com/estore/views.php?cat=6%5E21&sub_link=membership&desc=Membership%20and%20Donations&menu_oid=6">The Elephant Sanctuary (Tennessee)</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.davidshepherd.org/help-us/donate/">David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation</a></span></div>
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<a href="https://biglife.org/donations"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Big Life Foundation</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.theasianelephantfoundation.org/donate-participate">The Asian Elephant Foundation</a></span></div>
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<br />Sheila Singhalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639425878595630752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369768164360012321.post-71554278309254002912015-01-28T14:14:00.004-08:002021-04-17T10:09:51.001-07:00Elephant No. 117: From the Archives—Snowball Mural<br />
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<i>I was going to post something else today, but given the snowpocalypse
that hammered the East Coast of the United States and Canada yesterday,
and an epic snowball battle I saw this morning on the news, I decided to repost one of
my early elephants from the original Elephant a Day blog.</i></div>
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It's
a snowy day here today, but also warmish, so for today's elephant I
thought I'd try something I've been wanting to do for weeks: a snowball
mural.<br />
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When I mentioned this idea to my husband, he
thought it might be difficult, because you have to have good aim when
you lob the snowballs. However, this girl didn't play four years of
Little League for nothing, so I was willing to give it a shot.<br />
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I started with the same side wall of our house that I used in my <a href="http://elephantaday.blogspot.com/2011/10/elephant-no-6-green-wall-mural.html">green wall mural</a> and my <a href="http://elephantaday.blogspot.com/2011/12/elephant-no-79-christmas-lights.html">Christmas lights mural</a>.
The camera kept trying to focus on the fat individual snowflakes—I
think it was actually beginning to have a bit of a conniption fit—so
this photo is a bit out of focus.<br />
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I
set myself a perpendicular toeline of about eight feet, which I
discovered afterwards is almost exactly the toeline or "oche"
(pronounced o-kee) used by the World Darts Federation. The other rules I
set were that I couldn't remove any of the snowballs, and they all had
to be thrown. (I can't deny that I was very tempted to walk up and just
mash a few into the wall towards the end, but I managed to restrain
myself.)<br />
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Once I'd figured out the rules of this particular game, I just started making snowballs and pelting them at the wall.<br />
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It
was easy at first, because it didn't really matter where the first few
landed, as long as they were in the general area I was trying to hit. I
was actually quite proud of my aim, and rather enjoyed the very
satisfying "splat" as they hit the wall and flattened out.<br />
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As I went on, however, I began to discover a few things:<br />
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1.
The size and shape of the snowball is important. If it's not fairly
round and fairly even, it's going to go somewhere you weren't quite
expecting. If it's too big, it's going to drop lower than you expect;
too small, and it's going to lob higher. I tried to make up for this by
churning out fastballs, but without Major League velocity, precision
tended to elude me.<br />
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2. The contents of the snowball are
surprisingly important. Today's snow overlay an icy crust from
yesterday. In snowballs where I accidentally included some ice, the
snowballs had a mind of their own. Throwing them fast made very little
difference, so I quickly learned not to include ice.<br />
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3.
Overhand and underhand shots are very different. Overhand for me was
far more precise. Underhand was next to useless, because the snowball
always dropped several inches below where I wanted it.<br />
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4.
Stance is important. When I stood head-on and threw like a child, the
shot had a tendency to drop, although it still went more or less where I
wanted. If I stood slightly sideways, however, and wound up the shot
before throwing, I had much better accuracy. <br />
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5. Where
you look is important. When I focused on where I wanted the snowball to
go, it was far more likely to land somewhere nearby. I have no idea why.<br />
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I
was rather pleased with how this turned out. Quite a few of the shots
went wild until I got the hang of the properties of snowballs, and many
landed directly on top of one another, but in the end, it looks more or
less like I expected it to. I'm most proud of the way I was able to keep
the eye area with a bit of empty space around it. I also like the way
some of the vines peek through the snow, looking a bit like wrinkles.<br />
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This
took me about an hour, mostly because I was mysteriously bereft of
snowball-making lackeys. I can't believe I had to form all 127 snowballs
on my own. <br />
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When I was almost finished, a construction
worker stopped at the end of my driveway and said, "I thought before
that you were only playing, but I see now that you're making art."
That's just the kind of thing that makes my day.<br />
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<b>Elephant Lore of the Day</b></div>
At African Lion Safari in Ontario, Canada, it has been discovered that elephants like making snowballs—elephant-sized snowballs.<br />
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Like humans, elephants are pleased when the snow packs down well. Encouraged by park staff, they start with a small ball, then <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-538308/Meet-elephants-just-love-make-jumbo-snowballs.html">push it and roll it around</a> like we do when making snowmen. Once the snowball is as big as they are, they lose interest and start another one.<br />
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According to park staff, the elephants' snowballs are so well made that they can easily hold a man's weight.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elephants making large snowballs, African Lion Safari, Rockton, Ontario, Canada.<br />
Photo: © Barcroft<br />
Source: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-538308/Meet-elephants-%20%20just-love-make-jumbo-snowballs.html"><i>Daily Mail</i></a></td></tr>
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Similarly, at the Rosamund Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, New York, a 33-year-old elephant named Romani was caught in the act of <a href="http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/syracuse_elephants_toss_snowba.html">forming multiple snowballs with her trunk</a>,
which she then tossed over her shoulder. Other elephants at the Zoo
made and tossed snowballs at themselves and at each other, popping a few
snowballs into their mouths along the way. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.worldwildlife.org/home-full.html">World Wildlife Fund</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.awf.org/">African Wildlife Foundation</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantswithoutborders.org/donate.php">Elephants Without Borders</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.savetheelephants.org/">Save the Elephants</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantconservation.org/">International Elephant Foundation</a> <a href="http://www.elephantsworld.org/en/Donate.html">Elephant's World (Thailand) </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/howyoucanhelp.htm">David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.wti.org.in/pages/about-wti.html">Wildlife Trust of India</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blesele.org/how_to_help/">Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary (Thailand)</a><br /><a href="http://www.wildlifesos.org/donate">Wildlife SOS (India) </a><br /><a href="https://www.elephants.com/estore/views.php?cat=6%5E21&sub_link=membership&desc=Membership%20and%20Donations&menu_oid=6">The Elephant Sanctuary (Tennessee)</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.davidshepherd.org/help-us/donate/">David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation</a></span></div>
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<a href="https://biglife.org/donations"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Big Life Foundation</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.theasianelephantfoundation.org/donate-participate">The Asian Elephant Foundation</a></span></div>
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