The Elephant Parade 2010

I first blogged about the life-sized fibreglass baby elephant I was about to paint here, back in January. Basically, I've offered my services to help raise funds for The Sumatran Orangutan Society(SOS) who are taking part in a huge art event called The Elephant Parade this summer. 

Harapan the SOS elephant

So now, after what turned out to be a very cold start and several weeks, he is finally finished. And tomorrow he is being collected. I won't see him again until he appears in some (as yet unknown) location in London.  

We have named him Harapan, which means 'hope' in Sumatran. He is 1.48m in height and he carries all our hopes for an end to illegal deforestation and pet trade poaching, which are currently the main causes of the orangutan's rapid decline.
So here is Harapan in all his glory! If you click on the images they will enlarge.

 

I must mention The Elephant Family, as it is their hard work and ingenuity that organised the event. They work tirelessly to help asian elephants in developing countries through great fundraising events such as The Elephant Parade 2010.
For more pictures and how I painted Harapan look here.

All 250 elephants taking part in the parade will inhabit the capital soon, then they will be auctioned off to the highest bidder in the Summer.

Greeting Card Animals

The advent of spring is upon us and winter is nearly gone, so forgive me for being unseasonal here in showing my last two years' Christmas cards. The Reindeer and the Polar bear + baby are the result of a long term project I've been working on for years now. 
My aim is to design 3D paper animals that can easily be cut out and folded, yet involve no sticking. These Christmas card designs differed from the ones in the pipeline, as they needed to fit into an envelope for easy posting.

Polar bear Christmas 2009

Baby bear was designed for the recipient to cut out and fold for themselves.

Reindeer Christmas 2008

All artwork was designed to fit onto one piece of A4 120gsm white photocopy paper, (which included the greeting) and was printed off on the home printer.

More 3D sculptural animals are currently in production.