Bear Life

This painting makes me want to lay on the grass outside and do some gardening myself, bear style! I had lots of fun composing this from various photos of Monet's garden and his beautiful paintings as well as some inspiration from my own weeds out the front.

The cosplayer's daughter sat in a pose full of attitude. The agreed upon terms of being able to one handedly check her iphone backfiring on the artist as she insisted on holding it in the displayed hand. "Like.. how long is this going to take?" was a frequently muttered expression, and to the dismay of the artist her ethereal beauty in his picture showed her somewhat spoiled attitude. I dreamed of this scenario as I commenced my visual research and found the picture "Maria Magdalena" by Crivelli (1480) from the first Italian Renaissance. The attitude and facial expression of the model he used made me wonder what she, the model, must have been like.

Blissfull bear was the first I painted in the series now exhibiting at the awesome coffee shop Genesis in the Hills. He originated from a suggestion by my friend Dorothy for some more happy bears. In my mind he will always be Lollygobbleblissbomb Bear, but on assurances that lollygobbleblissbomb is copyrighted to a lolly I settled for Blissful Bear. The emotion is that one where you have the best drugs of what ever kind you can imagine to produce a state of bliss lying unneccessary in front of you because you are just too durn happy to need it.