Pliny the Elder

Posted on March 12, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Dragon, Elephant, History, natural history, pliny the elder, roman, serpentsLeave a comment

s Plinius Secundis was a Roman author. He is known to us as Pliny the Elder. He wrote several books on Natural History and I was going to use one of them as source material for my essay on dragons. He described them as serpents which were large and strong enough to squeeze the life out of elephants by sucking their blood.

As you can see from the image of a Chinese dragon the similarity between the two is quite limited apart from the fact they both have huge long thin bodies.

I read this much information but now the book has gone missing. I think my hubby has ‘borrowed’ it. It has bought my essay writing to a temporary halt. I need a rest anyway so thank you Pliny.

Can I see an elephant?

Posted on September 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Animals, Cloud, Elephant, Environment, Extinction, Imagination, Life, Looks like, Nature, Plants2 Comments

Strange towering cloud seen on our walk. Looks like someone walking with their hands being them and with an Elephants head, trunk raised.

Will our children and our children’s children even recognise Elephants, or Lions and Tigers and all the other animals (and plants) that are becoming extinct? When the last Elephant in the wild has its tusks hacked off by trophy hunters or illegal poachers, will someone notice or care?

Man sets himself up as the most important animal. But that means we should care for what lives on Earth. Not destroy it.

Today’s challenge.

Posted on January 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Elephant, Environment, Extinction, Flowers, Guns, Hunters, Life, Lion, My superpower?, Poem, Poetry, Rose, TigerLeave a comment

Day twenty three of the 64 million artists January challenge. I wrote this…

Day 23, I can’t find the actual challenge, but I think it is to write a poem to support nature and say what superpower you would have.
My super power would be to turn hunters guns into flowers so they can’t kill majestic animals like Lions and Rhino’s and Elephants.

If you shoot at Rhino,
Elephant, or Giraffe,
I will turn your gun into
A flower for a laugh.
You won’t be able to kill,
Despite your evil will.
And with rifle now a rose
A Tiger might bite your nose!
Leave the scarce alone,
Don’t bother to wail and moan,
Elephant want to roam,
Panthers need a home.
No more evil deeds,
Turning guns into seeds!

Elephants

Posted on January 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Climate, Climate change, Elephant, Extinctions, Hunting, Life, Poaching, WorldLeave a comment

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Soon we may only see Elephants as symbols in pictures or on textiles. They are one of the terribly endangered species in the world that coukd soon be extinct. The problem isn’t just hunting or poaching, but also the threat of climate change. As the land dries up through to drought, or is flooded by seas rising their habitat will be displaced. Only if we really try to do something about the situation do we stand to change things.

Elephant in the room.

Posted on October 9, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Elephant, Painting on canvas, Penkhull, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent2 Comments

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I painted this a few years ago. It was an elephant my friend made for penkhull mystery plays. It was used in a procession onto the village green and was carried by shoulder straps. I think it had cloth legs hanging over the edge to make it look like someone was sitting on the elephant.

It was so amazing I decided to record it as a painting. The frame was made of willow withies then canvas was stretched over the frame and painted white. Finally a fringe was attached to it and other fabric decorations.

The painting went to my friends house but sadly the elephant is no more. I think it was burnt in a fire at the garage it was stored in a few years after the play.

Random photos

Posted on October 8, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Elephant, Lake, Painting, Photos, Random pictures, Screen, WindowLeave a comment

Searching through my files found these old photos that were saved in a file that was on my old phone. Some of them I recognise, others must be more than 3 years old. I need to work out how to transfer them across to the other files…..

So there is Westport lake, a wooden screen at a cafe, a window in St Thomas Church, penkhull, a cumulo nimbus cloud, a drink flask, paper butterflies I cut out for a birthday and a painting I did of my friend decorating an elephant she made for the penkhull mystery plays.

I’m sure I will find more to share.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Elephant