Art of Juric S. Elephants

My cousin Yuki (he is Juric S. as well) lives in Greece and he is a painter. Last night we decided to inspire each other. I'll try to make photos that look like some of his paintings and he'll try to make a painting inspired by some of my photos. I got lucky and started first. From all his paintings I saw, I selected one of the most unlikely to reproduce - his elephant. I was lucky, because just across the street in one of the Microsoft food courts, there is a big elephant. Not live unfortunately, but with some details that are very similar to Yuki's painting. This elephant has head cover with small squares, and half are red. Both elephants have a line along the trunk and trunk is twisted to the same side. Both have super long trunks, and after I cleaned up the background (it was dark already), both had only the head left to be shown.

You can compare pictures yourself, Yuki's elephant is at http://youtu.be/JvVdDp0XnG8?t=1m38s