"Listen.  Can you hear it? The music! I can hear it everywhere.  In the wind . . . in the air . . . in the light!  It's all around us.  All you have to do is open yourself up.  All you have to do . . . is listen."

From the movie August Rush

 

This painting started as a watercolor on museum mounted Gessoboard.  I stained the sides of this board (to enhance the appearance and preserve the wood), then did a loose watercolor painting of an Asian elephant in an imaginary landscape.  Using Walnut Ink and a calligraphy brush, I quickly outlined the elephant to make it "pop" a bit.  An encaustic medium was then brushed around certain parts of the painting, offering a dream-like texture and appearance.  The stately calligraphic symbol stands for "to listen".