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Everyone's favorite recent work by me. Painted this one in my summer course in Orivesi. The theme of the course was childhood and memories, and this here depicts my childhood teddy bear Yki Nalle in the background, and another one owned by some old lady in the course. I attempted to portray the feelings of loss and fear associated with growing up, looking back into childhood and knowing you can never go back. The plan was to make the spectator identify with the smaller teddy bear up front, while the bigger one (which is my real childhood teddy bear) is looming there right behind you. I tried to make it as dramatic as possible, despite of the cutesy subject. Did I succeed? Hell no. Everyone just thought: Awwww.... that's so sweet. The moral of the story: there's no escaping the inherent cuteness of teddy bears. LOL EDIT 11.12.2006: Submitted a print quality image Daily DeviationGiven 2007-10-10The Childhood Teddybear is a brilliantly whimsical painting by *valkea. It reminds me of the comforts of being small. (Suggested by `RockGirl1582 and Featured by `guruubii) |
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At first I saw the LARGE bear - which is more appealing and strange to me - i almost couldnt see the other bear, its normalness shrunk it to invisibility.
But, Im also biased because my sister had a brown bear sorta like that named BeedyBear. (70's)
AND THEN I thought of memories and the wistfullness of looking back.
haha well, without kidding, i really like the concept, but it's true i really enjoyed the picture once i read it. Otehrwise i was more : "oh... two teddies.. ugggh, cuteness..."
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This makes me sad and whistful and afraid of growing up. I think it has to do with the way you've painted this, in faded, mute tones... like a memory that's slowly darkening and slipping away.
God, what a bedwetting-inducing moment.
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