Elephant sanctuaries are very expensive. But in Bali, India, and Thailand,the elephants help to pay for them. Vitaly Komar and famous artists. they always enjoyed unusual art. they learned that elephant often draw when they are bored. The elephants hold a stick in their trunks to draw in the dirt. Renee, an african elephant in a zoo in Ohio, was their first student. Komar and Melamid taught Renee to hold a paintbrush in the tip of her trunk.