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Somjai
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This
is my self portrait painted by elephant artist, Somjai, from
Maetaman Elephant Camp in Chiang mai Northern Thailand. Somjai is
a 14 year old male elephant and is a gentle giant, as well as
being friendly and social with all his buddies. He started
painting at age 10 and was a natural and quickly learned to paint
flowers. He loves his elephant friends so much that it came as no
surprise when he quickly used his skills to paint realistic
pictures of fellow elephants. Somjai's talent is as big as his
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Boombim
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This is Lavender Floral
painted by elephant artist, Boombim, from Maetaman Elephant Camp
in Chiang Mai Northern Thailand. Boombim is a highly confident 8
year old female elephant. According to her trainer, Ngiam, her
confidence turns to stubbornness at times. However, she is also
very expressive in her happiness and makes loud noises to show her
enjoyment. Being such an expressive elephant, she was meant to be
artist and after 2 years she is painting beautiful, realistic
pictures. Painting is very relaxing for Boombim. She gets a bath
before practicing, then indulges in bananas and sugarcane
afterwards. |
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Thong Phun
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This is Blue
Wild Orchid painted by elephant artist, Thong Phun, from
Maetaman Elephant Camp in Chiang Mai Northern Thailand. Thong Phun
is a talented abstract and realistic painter in Thailand with a very
unique style compared to other elephant artists. He is a 7 year old
male and is adorable! |
Jaab
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This is Bonsai
painted by elephant artist, Jaab, from Maetaman Elephant Camp in
Chiang Mai Northern Thailand. Jaab is a vivacious 8 year old male
elephant and he loves to play with his elephant friends and seems to
like everybody. This agreeable nature helped Jaab when he started
learning to paint five years ago. Of course, the rewards of corn
(his favorite food) also was a great motivator. With his art
teacher, Khun Tossapol Petcharattanakool, and caretaker, Mr. Phat
Singbood, Jaab is now creating realistic and abstract paintings. His
style keeps progressing and he is one of the special elephants who
really enjoys expressing himself through art vs. those who choose to
eat their wooden paint brushes. |
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Aet
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This
is an abstract painting painted by elephant artist, Aet, from the
National Elephant Institute in Lampang Northern Thailand, which have
the main entity responsible for cooperation in conserving Thai
Elephants. Aet is a highly confident 12 years old male elephant,and
according to his trainer, his confidence turns to stubbornness at
times; however he is also such an expressive elephant. After 2 years
of training with his mahout and art teacher, he used his trunk to
create a unique brush stroke which makes Aet's abstract paintings
distinctive with his own style. |
Punpetch
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This is abstract
red/green/yellow painted by elephant artist, Punpetch, from Maetaman
Elephant Camp in Chiang Mai Northern Thailand. Punpetch is an 8 year
old male who loves to paint abstracts and took his first art lesson
when he was 2 years old. In 2003, Punpetch took part in an art
exhibition with other well-known local artists at the Chiang Mai
University Art Museum. His works have also been exhibited at
galleries in Europe in addition to the Kawamura Art Museum in Japan.
He's quite a special guy! |
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same trainer throughout their whole life.
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a tourist camp near Chiang Mai, Thailand. Video by Marjorie
Masel www.marjoriemasel.com...elephant painting
Not a
painting of an elephant, but elephants at the Thai
Elephant conservation Centre near Chiang Mai, Thailand, painting
pictures.
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