Mailart 365: bear

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Grin and Bear it 25 November 2011 (#270)

Friday, November 25, 2011

Sometimes in life you just have to grin and bear it....!

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245-365 Bearmail

Sunday, October 16, 2011

I have a friend who wrote a book called "Help, a bear is eating me". Naturally, I need to send this to him.

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Sent to postcrossing user emsherm who contacted me for an artswap after reading about mailart365 on the postcrossing blog

This piece started as a tiger, but went horribly wrong, so I decided it looked like any old beast, and looked for an appropriately beastly quote (this one finally coming from Jean de la Fontaine, the French poet.

After writing the quote, I was still pretty sure the tiger looked awful, so I decided to brush over it's awfulness with brown swishes, in an attempt to make it look more like a bear, and lo and behold, this stroke actually made the picture look more like a tiger, hiding in undergrowth!

But ironically, I'd already sold the bears skin by the time he had turned into a tiger so to speak, so I left the quote as it was.

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