It may be the middle of summer...
Springtime for The Mammoths
...But these guys are still in fur. Here's a new painting(it's not for sale) I did of some mammoths....it started out as one thing and turned into something else. And, then, I realized I had a story behind it for a kid's picture book. Stay tuned on that. It's 15 x30 inches, a great format and size to work with and done in oils. I started it some time ago and stopped...waiting for what I needed to kick it in the butt and move on. I saw the film ICE AGE 2 and, then, the FANTASTIC trailer for Roland Emmerich's new film 10,000 BC due out next March which has...mammoths. Seeing all this got me moving again. The idea is that the new Spring is melting the Ice Age and, the mammoths are coming out of that....to a new world, one that sadly, they won't continue on in....
...But these guys are still in fur. Here's a new painting(it's not for sale) I did of some mammoths....it started out as one thing and turned into something else. And, then, I realized I had a story behind it for a kid's picture book. Stay tuned on that. It's 15 x30 inches, a great format and size to work with and done in oils. I started it some time ago and stopped...waiting for what I needed to kick it in the butt and move on. I saw the film ICE AGE 2 and, then, the FANTASTIC trailer for Roland Emmerich's new film 10,000 BC due out next March which has...mammoths. Seeing all this got me moving again. The idea is that the new Spring is melting the Ice Age and, the mammoths are coming out of that....to a new world, one that sadly, they won't continue on in....posted by Bob Eggleton (Zillabob) | 4:04 PM
4 Comments:
This is NICE!!!!
Thanks Lou. I have a thing with pachyderms it seems. This whole painting was for something else and wound up triggering another idea instead,for a story. More to come on that. Imagine a kid's book with fully painted spreads like this? And a story, in Mammoth terms, about change and inevitability.
I've been so busy I haven't visited in a couple of days but what a treat to see these glorius mammoths. In fact before I read the description I was just going to say this would make a marvelous image for a picture book (or wall!!). What a great ending for the day.
I like it! For a moment it looked like the rock on the left was turning into a mammoth too.
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