I know I'm not the first Bear fan to use this concept; the classic DaVinci drawing done with a Bear. Heck, it's not even the first time **I** have done it. The first time was for a contest in "A Bear's Life" magazine and actually is the very first bear-themed art I've ever done. The thing is, it was nothing more than a scanned drawing, that I took into Photoshop, gave it a background and manipulated the colors to reflect the old "aged" look. I'm not really a computer artist, and it frustrated me there wasn't technically an original out there. So I touched up the original drawing, and re-did it, creating this painting... hence the "2" in the title.

To be honest, I'm not sure I'm done with the concept, and may create a "3" someday. But for now, this is a much better execution of the image.