![]() ![]() Of course, I sketched it so lightly that it doesn't photograph very well. The idea of boldly splashing paint on a canvas and hoping it looked like a Van Gogh gave me hives. Needless to say, I wimped out and sketched something in pencil first. To read more about Van Gogh and his style, click here.Ĭollection of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles I decided to go with bold outlines, vivid colours and an, er, muscular painting style consisting of a lot of short, sharp strokes. I started by staring at numerous Van Gogh paintings in my books and online, trying to deconstruct the main elements of his style. Still, I'm always game for something like this, and if it was a massive failure, so what? Nothing ventured, nothing gained, after all. And an elephant? Even more beyond the realm of possibility. I love my mom.įamiliarity with Van Gogh's work, however, did not necessarily mean that I could draw or paint anything that looked like something he might have dreamed up. Along with the 23 other books in the series over the months that followed. And to her credit, she bought it for me that very day. I begged my mother to buy me a book of Van Gogh prints-at the supermarket of all places-when I was about 11. Van Gogh was the first "real" artist I liked. Sunset at Montmajour languished in the attic of a Norwegian industrialist for six decades, because he'd been told it was a fake. Today's elephant was inspired by this week's news story about the first full-sized Van Gogh painting to be discovered in 85 years. There's something kind of fun about making elephants in the style of artists who probably never produced elephants. ![]()
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