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This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Joel was the host and provided a bunch of great photos!
I combined two photos for this painting. A beautiful sundown and two elephants. Something about painting elephants touches a sad spot in my heart, knowing their plight just to survive a bit longer on this planet.
This is oil on a 5x7 canvas board. Part painting knife and part loaded brush. Plenty of paint for texture. I had to re-invent some of the lighting....never an easy thing to do.
Hope ya'all like it!
C&C welcome. Thanks for Commenting!!!
Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com
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John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Beautiful and strong. This is a wonderful painting.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in India I had a chance to ride on the back of one. Such a huge animal and very special. I could cry when I think of the cruelty done by poachers for the ivory.
so powerful!
ReplyDeleteDean, I was wrapping presents yesterday and of course, I had 3 of your paintings to wrap. I also have 3 of your paintings up on my living room wall. That makes you the #2 spot on my most paintings by a single artist category. I was struck anew at the beauty of your work when I was wrapping yesterday. Almost hard to let them go. But since they are for my precious daughters, I wrapped them cheerfully. Anyway, the elephants too are beautiful. I hope they are not endangered. I do not know too much about the elephant personality but they sure seem to smile and are, to my mind, gentle giants.
ReplyDeleteThese elephants are beautiful, Dean.! I love the colors in this painting and love the strong light...nicely done!!!
ReplyDeleteHi Dean - still looks great and on my monitor the difference is hardly noticeable. Love that you took the time to try to get it right. Sign of a professional.
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