This was a sweet little commission I had, completed yesterday, as a gift for someone who has been badly affected by catching Covid19 and is still very poorly months on. This is bear 610 who lives at Katmai National Park in Alaska, and has quite a story of survival. She was seen often on the live web cams in the far distance as an abandoned yearling cub. Somehow she managed to survive on her own to adulthood, but what makes it even more amazing is that when she was finally seen closer, she has the most enormous dent above her right hip (you can see the mark in the painting) from what must have been a horrendous injury. She survived this too - she could have died from blood loss, shock, starvation, predation, and yet is still with us. Quite the metaphor...
This was painted in watercolour on paper. I have to say, the reflection took twice as long to paint as the actual bear!
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