by Graeme Compton

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Elephant at a window

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An idea for a children's frieze involving an adventurous young elephant had been on my digital drawing board for some time. Whilst creating one of the images, involving a haunted mansion, I thought it would be amusing to hang classic portraits on the walls with one huge difference: each portrait would be repainted as an elephant. I chose Rembrandt as my victim. Once the digital roughs were done, I became attracted to the little images and decided to actually paint them, on canvas. Some deliberate study of Rembrandt's original's thus ensued and the finished paintings produced. I am now working on an exhibition with this theme. This picture, inspired by Rembrandt's 'Girl at a window' from 1645 caught my eye, particularly because of the girl's expression, the musing, patient look she gives the painter as she thumbs the skin at her throat.

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