Beginning  A Bear Painting

I sketched my subjects on a prepared canvas.

I blocked in the main colours of my picture.

Below is my photo reference from the wildlife
sanctuary that I visited this spring.   CHEERS!

BEAR  HUGS

 

 

This weekend my husband and I enjoyed the antics of two

young grizzly bears at the Wildlife Park in Kamloops, B.C.

The park is home to many different species of animals that

are native to the province of B.C. Some have been orphaned

or have been injured and rehabilitated but are unable to be

released into the wild again.

While there were other animals that we enjoyed seeing,

none were as entertaining as this rambunctious pair of bears.

 The siblings gave me plenty of opportunities to photograph them

at play and at rest. Below is one of the resident Bald Eagles

who has suffered a broken wing.

It was a great place to collect reference material for my paintings.

"KOOTENAY BEARS"

This is one of the illustrations that I created for my Dad's book, "Kootenay Bears". It is a pencil and charcoal drawing of a grizzly bear who seemed to be admiring the sunrise during one of my father's hunts. The book is a collection of short stories about bear encounters that my Dad has experienced. There are black and white pencil/pen/and charcoal illustrations throughout the book. While the encounters may have raised adrenaline and hairs on the back of my father's neck, they have been recounted and told with humour.