"Bearly There"

Taking a break from my more serious works, did this set of teddy bears, each with its own 'personality' and uniqueness.... a fun project with color pencils on a larger than usually done scale - 20" x 30".... there is a projected second shelf - "Bearly There Too" - which may or may not be done, in which the sax player's sax is where the Fore Bear is readying to swing the ball to [Soul Bear is that one's name]... there here - Wild Bear, Ted E Baer, Bare Bear, Hairy Bear, Cannibear, and Fore Bear, with Air Bear underneath.... the slate was the consequence of a 'save' as the pencil slipped and left an unwanted mark.... all these, btw, are from imagination with the exception of Ted E, who became the instigator of the piece.... Air Bear, of course, is taken after Lucille Ball, red hair, beady wild eyes and all....... Fore Bear, of course, was inspired by the 'Golden Bear' of golf....... the really fun deal was imaginating the shadow, visualizing in my head how it'd look, then doing it.....

"The Birthing Tree"

This is a metaphoric work of many levels.... there still are, in some parts of the world, actual birthing trees, where women go to give birth, then carry on afterwards - but what was of more import was the idea of the tree itself being the source of the life sprouting over the layers of rock off into the distance, as well as the implied same with the woman as symbol of humanity doing likewise.... another of the proper function of being human, to transform the given to suiting the wellbeing of the flourishing human......