Sketchbook 2016
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Just a few pen and ink additions - Club Med - (home of the Twilight Lounge), Minaret crest, Matthes crest, and elephant
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Dang! Where DID you see the elephant?!? I've been looking for one all over the Sierra but never had a glimpse. Saw what I figured had to be footprints one time, but never the actual beast. They must be very shy...
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BSquared wrote:Dang! Where DID you see the elephant?!? I've been looking for one all over the Sierra but never had a glimpse. Saw what I figured had to be footprints one time, but never the actual beast. They must be very shy...
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It does NOT take much of a biologist to see that that is not an elephant: it is a mammoth. What Mark sketched is clearly an elephant. Note the difference in pellage and tuskage. On the other hand, the beast you photographed does appear to live in close proximity to where I saw the prints (I believe it was in the Thousand-Island Lake area), and I notice that you've cleverly caught it with one foot in the air, so presumably it does walk. Perhaps I misidentified the prints and it was actually those of this mammoth that I saw. But then where did the elephant that Mark sketched come from? Clearly more research is needed.
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Inquiring minds want to know? Just to quell your confusion B²...no, the elephant was not actually observed during in my frequent Sierra roamings. Fact is, Jamie, the head "bossman" of the entire Tuolumne complex (and the person responsible for hiring my sorry ass last spring), seen here in the Twilight Lounge, has a thing for elephants. To stay in her good graces, (and to insure another seasons employment next year?)...I did a few pen-n-ink elephant renderings for her. The one posted came out pretty nice...thus shown here above. Next summer, if you're in the Tuolumne Store...drop in and say hi to all.BSquared wrote:But then where did the elephant that Mark sketched come from? Clearly more research is needed.
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Not bad.. Not bad at all!!
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Re: Sketchbook 2016
All these sketches are great.
Balzaccom - is that Crown Lake?
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Balzaccom - is that Crown Lake?
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School out for three weeks...keeping busy
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more idle time -
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