The Herd of Borneo
The Pygmy Elephants of Borneo are a subspecies of the more common Asian Elephant. They are thought to be the decendents of the Java Elephant which is now extinct in its homeland of Java. These elephants differ from the mainland elephants by having shorter trunks and longer tails, smaller ears, rounder heads and bodies, better tempers and they are much smaller.
There are only about 1000 Pygmy Elehants in the world!
Save the Elephants by adopting one through WWF Malasia. They can help to ensure that safe habitats are maintained for the elephants to live in.
Raise Awareness of these living treasures by joining me in creating
"THE HERD OF BORNEO"
1000 elephants!
Make one yourself and send me a photograh of it to include on the 'The Herd' page. Send to, katyhick@gmail.com
'Leaders of the Herd' by Katy Hick. 2006.
Making an elephant with Recyled Paper.
You can use an old card board box. Draw and cut out the profile of your elephant. Use this as a stencil to cut out another identical one and one without legs for the middle. Make pieces to separate them and fix in place with a glue gun. Satay sticks can be useful to hold the profiles apart until the glue sets [it only takes a few seconds] Cut curved pieces to stick on the outside to give the fatness of your elephant. Continue to add bits until you have a strong and shapely structure.
The photos above show the inner structure of the elephants. These are about 2 foot tall but they could be much bigger! The sculptures could be left like this if you like them to look semi-abstract or you could complete them by painting them or by adding a papier mache 'skin' as in the two above. First stick strips of paper across the outer points of the cardboard structure and then mold the papier mache over the surface. I have found that a mixture of paper pulp, pollyfiller [or similar] and PVA glue makes an excellent kind of paper clay that can be molded very finely. If you can find shredded paper it saves a lots of time tearing, and hot water will pulp it more quickly than cold.
