Elephant Painting

There are people all over the world who paint. There are also many people in world history who have painted many wonderful and many well known paintings in today's art memory, but have you ever heard of an Elephant painting pictures?

In Thailand, Indonesia, India and Cambodia there are elephants who paint pictures. They paint elephants, trees, fields, and probably a whole lot more different things, by just picking up the brush with their trunks. Each Elephant has a person to help them with the paint color, but the person will hand the brush to the elephant, the elephant will step up to the canvas and start painting.

An elephant is trained to paint by her mahout or her trainer. They practice for a long time until the elephant is able to paint a picture. before the training however quiet a few of these elephants were employed hauling timber around, but when they "lost" there job there, they had to come up with some talent to market in the economy that would help them to survive.

The links below show examples of Elephant Painting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiMz1v2vyE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4CFAOY0R8&feature=related