Watercolour and oil pastel
©2018 Charlene Brown
I asked for ideas when I was wondering what to
paint this week, and my daughter suggested a bear. I reminded her that I
usually paint landscapes and she had a simple solution, “Put it in a landscape –
a foggy forest.” In my mind this quickly became a rainforest, so the bear had
to be a Spirit Bear or Kermode and it had to have a couple of cubs.
The Kermode, which is white, is a rare mutation
of the American black bear, found only along the coast and islands of British
Columbia between the southeastern tip of Alaska and the northern tip of
Vancouver Island. Pictures of Kermodes
on the internet showed various combinations of black and white parents and
cubs, not including a white mother with one black and one white cub but I
decided to go with that anyway.
