Elephant Love

Title

Elephant Love

Artist

Michele Avanti

Medium

Digital Art - Mixed Media

Description

Elephant Love - mixed media digital painting - Michele Avanti

Elephants are such an inspiration to me. They love and protect each other and memorialize their dead each year. What goes on in an elephants mind? What are their thoughts? What is an average day of thinking for an elephant? I guess only the elephants know the answers to these questions. I have been dabbling with painting elephants for a while and have many studies in my files. I finished this piece with some colorful touches that the child in you and the child you know may like. I hope you enjoy it.

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Definition of elephant from Merriam Webster:
1a - : a thickset, usually extremely large, nearly hairless, herbivorous mammal (family Elephantidae, the elephant family) that has a snout elongated into a muscular trunk and two incisors in the upper jaw developed especially in the male into long ivory tusks:

(1): a tall, large-eared mammal (Loxodonta africana) of tropical Africa that is sometimes considered to comprise two separate species (L. africana of sub-Saharan savannas and L. cyclotis of central and western rain forests)
— called also African elephant

(2): a relatively small-eared mammal (Elephas maximus) of forests of southeastern Asia
— called also Asian elephant, Indian elephant

b: any of various extinct relatives of the elephant
— see MAMMOTH, MASTODON
2: one that is uncommonly large or hard to manage

Definition of pachyderm from Merriam Webster Dictionary: any of various non-ruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin

Pachydermos in Greek means literally "having thick skin" (figuratively, it means "dull" or "stupid"). It's from pachys, meaning "thick," and derma, meaning "skin." In the late 1700s the French naturalist Georges Cuvier adapted the Greek term as pachyderme and used it for any one of a whole assemblage of hoofed animals having thickish skin: elephants, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, tapirs, horses, pigs, and more. English speakers learned the word from French in the early 1800s. The adjective pachydermatous means "of or relating to the pachyderms" or "thickened" (referring to skin). Not too surprisingly, it also means "callous" or "insensitive" (somewhat unfairly to elephants, which are actually known to be rather sensitive).

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