Bear in Mind

Posted by lurchie on Feb 2nd, 2010 in Splotches of Art | 3 comments

Today looks rather promising, yes? Oh how I love to listen to the sound of falling rain. Reminds me so much of The Cascades’ “Rhythm of the Rain”. Do you like that song? I do… It is one of my earlier favorites.

I would like to share another artwork I did last December. It has a bit of a story to go with it, so I hope you don’t mind to sit down, share breakfast coffee with me as I tell you how this drawing came about:

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It started with me recollecting this bag I used to have when I was in elementary school. It was yellow and brown, and it looked like a suitcase made out of cloth. It had these bear drawings in front that seemed to be peeking out of the front pocket, waving and smiling. I remember one particular bear drawing in that bag because back when I was in Grade 2, I used to try to copy the bear. In fact, I seem to recall that I did actually get to duplicate the bear just by copying it. Of course, the wanna-be artist that I currently am wanted to attempt to draw a bear as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, time and space prevented me from sitting in front of my sketchbook and sketch. One night, images of me drawing a bear just had to keep bothering my sleep, so I woke up at 2 in the morning and drew it all out.

So it started with the bear in pencil, I was going to use colored pencil, but I changed my mind and used oil pastels… after 2 hours or so.. Voila! I got my bear!

After I drew the bear, he never visited me again… maybe because I tied him to a balloon and sent him off to space.