Post script, Base layer

⚠️WORK IN PROGRESS⚠️
This painting would later go on to be completely reworked in the Letters series of 3 polar bears.

Creative impulse is a funny thing.

For months I’ve been fighting the pull of bears while I’ve focused intently on foxes and more recently the quarantine collection of portraits.
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I’m getting really tired of fighting for so much these days; fighting for people to do their part, fighting to keep patients safe and fighting to keep trying every day when it feels like what I’m doing matters so very little.

And today, I really couldn’t fight this one any more. .
I followed the bears
And they led me to the sea.

I promise there’s a narrative here that will be told as I paint my way through what I’ve been dreaming.

⚠️Work in progress, very early block in oil on canvas on dreams 16x20”