Less than a year ago I made three paintings, one each for my parents and one for my sister. I hadn’t painted since, the past year has been SO crazy, but because the babies first birthday (see previous post) was rapidly approaching and I’d been meaning to do a painting for their room since their birth, I finally got off my duff and did it. I knew I wanted to do a painting of bears and I have spent a lot of time looking at pictures of bears. A LOT of time. The painting I wanted to do, based on a joke Emily’s mom told us about a certain cross-eyed bear didn’t really work so well. How does one draw a bear with crossed eyes without it looking too cartoony? So I decided to go with the story of The Three Bears, it’s one of my favourites. I prefer the version where the bears, upon finding Goldilocks the greedy furniture smasher holed up in the home, eat her. Sadly, I don’t know who did the illustration I copied. I glued a copy of that on the back of the painting along with the hilariously sober synopsis of the story from Wikipedia on the back. I can hardly wait ’til they are old enough to read it themselves.
It’s not as good as any of Shannon’s paintings, but I am still pretty happy with how it turned out.
Other than the smell.
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