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Fat Bear Week!

32 Chunk looking chunky. Turns out it's pretty fun

32 Chunk looking chunky. Turns out it's pretty fun to draw lightbulb-shaped bears.
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Seems like a good day for more bear art! If you do

Seems like a good day for more bear art! If you don't know bear 503 at Katmai, he has an amazing backstory. I highly recommend looking for the video "503 Gets Adopted" on YouTube if you want to learn more about his story. (I just got distracted writing the caption for this post, because I decided to go watch that video again myself.) I started working on this drawing last weekend when 503 was one of the bears being celebrated in the bear cam chat on Explore. I also meant to finish it and post it last weekend, but it always seems like I never have enough hours in the day for everything I have to do.

When I think of 503, I always think of his awesome story, but I also think of him in the jacuzzi at Brooks Falls (not an actual jacuzzi, but that would be interesting) with his head swiveling back and forth. Of course I had to draw him that way. Can't wait to see him again this summer and see how much bigger he's gotten!
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This morning I was excited to see that my appropri

This morning I was excited to see that my appropriately named pattern, Colorful Clash, got 13th place out of 1473 entries in last week's Pattern Clash Design Challenge on Spoonflower. I admit that in my day-to-day life I'm not much of a bold pattern person. (I do own more striped t-shirts than I probably should though.) When I made this pattern, I got the idea to create a base pattern first, so in this case, overlapping circles. Then I added additional patterns to the overlapping areas. As I was working on this, I kept stopping and wondering, "Is this too much?" But pffft, there's no such thing as too much color. Thanks to everyone who voted for my design! It was a fun one to make.
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Today over on the bear cam chat on Explore, it's t

Today over on the bear cam chat on Explore, it's the bear celebration day for 708 and her subadults, 307 and 308. Since I've already posted a drawing of lovely 708 Amelia, I thought I'd do a quick drawing of her son, 307.

I've loved 307 and 308 since I saw them sitting as sleepy frost-covered floofs with their mom in 2020. In 2021, 307 fell ill and was briefly separated from his mom and sister, but he recovered and the family had a very happy reunion in the river. (Seriously. Look it up on YouTube. It's great.)

Like all members of the 708 family, 307 likes sitting and standing on rocks. (And we all know how much I like bears who sit on rocks.) Last summer I'd spot him lurking around the falls, sometimes standing on the smaller rocks. One way I'd recognize him, aside from his funny little hairdo, is from all of the head nodding and head bobbing he'd do. He's a cute little bear. And of course I'd also recognize him because a lot of the time he'd be hanging out with his sister, 308. Looking forward to seeing if the two of them still spend a ton of time together this summer.
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I was excited to see that my design for last week'

I was excited to see that my design for last week's Spoonflower design challenge, Happy Birthday, finished in 26th place out of 1379 entries. I've been challenging myself to enter the weekly design challenge every single week this year, just for fun. I had a lot of fun with this one.
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