Muskoka Bear

Muskoka Bear is an original acrylic painting on an 18" x 24" canvas — a portrait of a bear painted with the kind of respect the subject deserves. He fills the canvas from corner to corner, his broad head and heavy shoulders pressing forward as if he has just emerged from the treeline and decided you are worth a look. His fur is painted in rich strokes of golden amber, burnt orange, and deep brown, with unexpected threads of cobalt blue woven through — the same blue that saturates the background behind him, tying bear and wilderness together into one continuous presence. His face is pale gold and cream at the muzzle, his small dark eyes calm and knowing, his expression neither threatening nor timid. He is simply there, fully himself, entirely at home. The background is a wash of deep, vertical cerulean and cobalt blue — loose, painterly, suggesting moving water or dense forest air. Pure paint, pure bear, pure Muskoka. A one-of-a-kind original by Branka, created once and never again.

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