Watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm – 12″ × 8.5″

1. From Alma’s beautiful photograph Time to Retreat with her kind permission.

1. “You know … they say an elephant never forgets.
   What they don’t tell you is, you never forget an elephant.”
   ^{Actor Bill Murray}

With a height of just over 3 – 4m (measured at the shoulder), a length of between 6 to 7.5m (that’s the length of an average motor car garage!) and weighing in at 6 tonnes, these mostly gentle giants of the African bush are highly intelligent with a strong sense of family and herd, and a complex social structure.

Here in Africa they are native to a wide variety of habitats including semi-desert scrub, open Savannah’s and dense forest regions. Besides its greater size, The African Elephant {_Loxodonta_} differs from the Asian elephant in having larger ears and tusks, a sloping forehead, and two “fingers” at the tip of its trunk, compared to only one in the Asian species.

6th March 2011 – Sold a Laminated print to a lovely RB member – Thank you!

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1. 6th March 2011 – FEATURED in Freedom to Shine
2. 10th March 2011 – FEATURED in Just Watercolours
3. 17th March 2011 – FEATURED in Afrikaans
4. 5th April 2011 – FEATURED in Collaboration Central
5. 11th April 2011 – Placed in the TOP 10 of the challenge African Elephants in African Beauty – 9th Place
6. 3rd May 2011 – CHALLENGE WINNER in the challenge Kuns/Art….only ART/ KUNS alleenlik! in Afrikaans is my Mother tongue
7. 22nd June 2011 – FEATURED in Amazing Wildlife
8. 1st July 2011 – FEATURED in Wildlife of Southern Africa
9. 2nd November 2011 – FEATURED in Painted Nature & Object
10. 3rd November 2011 – FEATURED in EXPLORE
11. 3rd November 2011 – FEATURED in Welcome to the Jungle
12. 3rd November 2011 – FEATURED in Animals of Africa
13. 6th November 2011 – FEATURED in Inspired Art
14. 26th November 2011 – Placed in the TOP 10 of the challenge November $20 challenge in ‘Animals of Africa’ – 3rd Place
15. 29th November 2011 – FEATURED in Image Writing
16. 20th December 2011 – Placed in the TOP 10 of the challenge OLIFANTE in AFRIKA / ELEPHANTS in AFRICA in ‘Afrikaans is my Modertaal/Afrikaans is my Mother tongue’ – 2nd Place

From my portfolio of Animals 1 – Wildlife

Mounted print

Greeting card

Framed print – large

Poster – ideal for Field Study class