Medium: Watercolor, Digital/Photoshop, Image Size: 20”h x 20″w, ©2003.

At the time this design was created, my husband and I owned Trekker Designs, an apparel decorating company, and one of the things we did was to screen print our designs onto apparel products and novelty gifts and sell them to our wholesale clients. One of our biggest clients was the Black Bear Diner Corporation. This design was one of the many black bear artworks we created which were printed on clothing, mugs, and cards that we sold to Black Bear Diner to sell in their diners and to be worn by employees. This artwork is a realistic representation of Black Bears, so I showed several different views of these awesome animals. I added the beaded satchel to give the design a Native American quality.

Painted in watercolor, scanned into the computer, floated, graphics, colors, effects, and text were done in Photoshop.