Elk Tapestries

Digital watercolor painting of an elk

Black and white handmade double exposure illustration using fine lines and stippling technique.

Colored pencil drawing of an Elk by Tim Jeffs

not a moon

The Spirit of the Mountains never dies!

Elk

Megaloceros giganteus otherwise known as the Irish Elk, one of the largest deer species in the fossil record. Measuring 6.9 feet, with the largest antlers of any deer species, measuring 12 feet in width. Despite it’s name it was not exclusively native to Ireland, nor was it actually an elk. Most of the best and most complete specimens were found in Ireland, with some of the antlers winding up on the walls in medieval castles. Megaloceros lived during the Middle pleistocene to the early holocene 0.781 – 0.008 million years ago.

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Take a step outside and breathe in the mountain air.

- something mourns between the trees - -elk

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Forest Elk!

Estes Park, Colorado. September, 2016

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Elk

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Hope you like it!

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Watch out for the wildlife!

Watch out for the wildlife!

This is my painting of a bull elk with his reflections in the water. This painting is 1 of 4 in a series of Mountains, Lakes & Wildlife.

Domestic moose will warm you in any weather.

Thranduil The Party King

A digital painting I recently completed for the topic of ‘Thunder Boy’. I often ask my contributors for a word or two of their choice, and then I paint it! ‘Thunder Boy’ was the word choice from one of my friends!

Elk - Moose

Ink (2016)

Cool elk design

Featuring a bull elk and the mountains.

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All Rights Reserved Worldwide. All photographs are owned and copyright by Michael Cummings. Do not use, edit or in anyway alter without written permission. Please contact me if you have an interest in using any image in my collection.

I did this bull elk in what could be called a Neo-Celtic or Neo-Nordic style. The stippling and knots are more traditional, but the image has a modern edginess to it. Elk and other antlered species have been a popular archetype representing strength, power, and virility going back to ancient times.

Elk

Star Elk

Hope you like it!