Jumbo the Elephant

 

I wanted to paint another picture using the elephant in my new Dana Fox book, "Watercolor With Me in the Jungle." I had already done two other elephant paintings. Then I got an idea from the movie hubby and I were watching, "Billy Rose's Jumbo," from 1962. It was a cute romantic musical comedy staring Doris Day. Jumbo was the main attraction in that circus.

So after I traced the elephant from the book, I drew the circus tent freehand, behind him. I also added a head piece and blanket for his back and the elephant in the book became Jumbo!

I transferred the tracing along with the added elements to my watercolor paper using my light box.

I used Winsor Newton Cotman watercolor tubes on arches paper. The additional details were done using a Gelly Roll white pen and a Micron Pen black pen.

Challenges:

https://morgansartworld.blogspot.com/2020/11/morgans-artworld-challenge-11.html

https://worldwideopendesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/10/world-wide-open-design-team-challenge.html 

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2020/11/november-2020-challenge-anything-goes.html

http://craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2020/11/challenge-44.html# 

https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/11/classic-design-challenge-november-11.html