Mama's White Elephant Metal Print

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�Mama�s (Alice�s) White Elephant�

As a youngster, I remember sitting on the floor at the coffee table and starring at Mama�s White Elephant�s. There were three at the time. I would imagine that I was in the jungles of Africa taming the elephants. I imagined riding high on their shoulders viewing the magnificent meadows. Although, those days are long past, looking at the elephant brings fond memories of my life with Mama. Knowing how much she loved this porcelain elephant was the deciding factor for me choosing it as a subject for this artwork. I thought of her continuously as I painted the elephant.

My favorite medium is anything I choose to use that day. Lately that has been oil. It has a rich velvety texture and glides over the canvas. I also like to use transparent watercolors because they glow with luminescence and allows for the light I see in life to be captured on paper. I started drawing as a teenager. You may recall those art advertisements that were in the guise of a contest. Draw this dog and submit it to our panel of artists and see if you qualify. Of course, every submission was a winner if you could afford the huge price tag to enroll in their correspondence school. Well, my family couldn't afford it so my effort to be an artist was put on the shelf, but not my desire. In the 80's my husband and I had a...