AUCTION: Is the discerning artist in you just itching for a unique painting by a capy-ble artist? Maybe a slowly created work of art by a sloth? How about a painting done by a giraffe?

“Dream Big: Night on the Town” is an event next month at the Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, N.Y., in Broome County. An auction will be held at the March 15 gala and online for some artwork done by the inhabitants of the environmental conservation organization and zoo.

The animals there include a bearcat, sloths, capybaras, penguins, giraffes, a rhino, a tapir, antelopes, parrots and more.

The park reopens to visitors in April.

We Googled “zoo animal painting” and found places where zoos and animal parks offer artwork for sale to benefit the care and upkeep of the animals there. Wildlife Safari in Oregon has about a dozen works up for sale.

A three-pack of elephant artwork includes a unique elephant brush painting, trunk kiss, and blow painting. They described the process, too.

“Trunk kisses are made by putting non-toxic, child-safe paint on the end of an elephant’s trunk and having them press against the canvas giving you the outline of their trunk. Brush paintings are made by having the elephant hold a sponge with paint on it and they will move it around on the canvas like brush strokes. Blow paintings are made by putting a water-based non-toxic, child-safe paint in the end of an elephant’s trunk and they spray it out creating a splatter paint effect.”

Some of the art is created with paw prints, some with brushes and some with skin prints.

Check it out. Maybe you’ll find a Paw-claw-sso or Giraffe-son Pollock to your liking.