Finally I get to tell you all about this!
A few months ago I was approached by the Elephant Family, with whom, if you recall, I painted a life-size adolescent fibreglass elephant for last summers Elephant Parade in London. This time they had grand plans to turn fringe season Edinburgh into a jungle with many animals rather than just elephants.
As you may know the Elephant Family is a charity devoted to the protection and conservation of the asian elephant in the wild. The London Elephant Parade aimed to raise 2 million pounds to go towards securing corridors of land connecting current elephant habitats. In the end it managed to raise over 4 million pounds, a resounding success and a real boon towards protecting the elephant.
Jungle City Edinburgh recognises that there are many other endangered species that share the elephants habitat and that by protecting the habitat for the elephants they are also protecting it for all the other species that live there. As such, Edinburgh in August and September will abound with over 150 life-size sculptures of Elephants, Rhinoceros Horn-bills, Tigers, Crocodiles and Orang-utans.
Edinburgh will be a Jungle! More information here: http://www.jungle-city.org/index.html
Well I have been asked to paint an Orang-utan and more will be revealed on that later. Meanwhile if you have Flickr, Twitter or Facebook you can now follow his progress. I am posting photos online, 1 maybe 2 a day as he progresses. They are going up on Flickr but I tend to link to them online in other places too.
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/noblueskies/
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