Far From Home
Far From Home
Far From Home
Today I'm highlighting Far From Home, a recent
mixed-technique/mixed-medium painting featuring a large Savannah
African Elephant crossing vast flatlands in Africa.
There are two subspecies of African elephants: the larger savannah
elephant (Loxodonta africana africana), which roams the grassy plains
and woodlands of southern and central Africa, and the smaller forest
elephant (Loxodonta africana cyclotis), which inhabits the equatorial
forests of central and western Africa. Far From Home depicts the larger
savannah elephant. Most notable are the very large ears, which allows
it to radiate excess heat, and the huge tusks, which are very large
incisors that grow throughout this elephant's lifetime.
While the world's largest land mammal has a commanding presence, it is
also struggling through a most difficult crisis -- the real threat of
extinction due to ivory poaching.
Video Link
The Last Stand of the African Elephant
What's a Mixed-Technique/Mixed Medium Painting?
After years of painting in a traditional manner, I have moved to a more
contemporary multi-phase process. The first phase of my painting
process involves generating digital images - from original sketches to
combined and altered photographs, or both - to produce an original
underpainting. With the underpainting complete, phase two involves
transferring this underpainting to canvas and stretching the canvas
onto an underframe. At that point, I begin the third phase of my
painting process, which is to complete the painting by hand using
traditional tools (brushes, cloths, palette knifes, scrapers, etc.) to
produce layers of acrylic paint and gels, gouache, archival inks,
water-based oils, and occasionally other collage-like materials. The
result is a unique, colorful mixed-media original that has great
character, vibrancy and depth.
Below shows Far From Home at various stages of this
mixed-technique/mixed-medium multi-phase process.
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Far From Home In Progress
To see more paintings by Audie Dunham click here
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