Four More Bears

I finished my watercolors bears for the The 100 Day Project with this somersaulting brown bear cub. I started with a sketch, refined it, and filled in the watercolor, adding the details to define the shapes and shadows.

With six more days of bears, I decided to add two folk art bears, which would be three days that include sketches, silhouette, and the final folk art. I designed the folk art with the same designs used on the rabbits. Here’s the first set on one of the folk art bears for Days 35, 36, 37:

I’ll finish up the next set on April 3rd, and on April 4th I’ll start with the set of 20 birds.

For the folk art brushes, I chose sketching brushes, an erase or fill brush, line work brushes, and two specialty brushes: Liz Kohler Brown’s irregular dots and my own five petal flower. Although I often just dotted in the dots with the line work brushes.

Come join the 100 Day Project from Lindsay Jean Thomson ( website, IG, and podcast ). The hashtag is #the100dayproject. Start your own

The goal is to make a plan for drawing every day for 100 days– five to ten minutes. That seems doable, doesn’t it? What if you miss a day — listen here. My advice: enjoy it; don’t worry if you miss, just keep going as you can.

My plan is to draw

• 20 bunnies
• 20 bears
• 20 birds
• 20 dogs
• 20 cats