Home Sweet Home

 

"Being a father, I know the importance of providing children with a safe and comfortable home.  A mother
bear also wants her children to feel safe in the forest, surrounded by massive, moss-lined trees,
overgrown bushes loaded with fresh berries, wild and sweet and possibly a bee hive dripping with honey.

In this painting, I wanted to portray this juvenile black bear being perfectly content to climb this half-rotten
tree to contemplate its future.  Soon he will be full grown and remembering all the good
lessons that its mother taught him."