Although created several years apart, you have the opportunity to view two versions of the Como mother giraffe as if they were created yesterday and today. I spent so much time studying the new baby while I was visiting the zoo to create the second image, that I think many of the features in image #2 look like the youngster. If the female giraffe has picked up anything from her female admirers, she will be very happy to look so much younger than a picture made of her two years earlier! (how's that for the ultimate personification????)
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| Giraffe #1 - Sepia ranger ink on Strathmore 400 series mixed medial paper and painted with watercolor paint and enhanced with black India ink using a Pentel pocket pen. |
I was careful to render both images using the same materials on the same, or similar paper, so that it is the visual image that can be compared, and not the medium or technique.
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| Giraffe #2 - Sepia ranger ink on Strathmore 400 series mixed media paper and hand painted using watercolor paints. Black India ink enhancements added using a Pentel pocket pen. |
Notice that the large forehead protrusion so visible on a male is much smaller on this particular female. These giraffes are all from the same subgroup. The variations in markings from one group to the next are varied. The brownish markings on the males at the Naples Zoo, for example, are much larger and have a lighter spot in the middle of each - different species of giraffes than the Como herd. I wonder if their predators can distinguish one from the other??
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