But outta left field she says "Like that rose you did!" Turned out that tucked away in her back room in a broken frame was the original of the centerpiece that I actually drew in '94, sitting in her kitchen when I needed something to draw for the next day's art class. A week after writing this post, and after the unsolicited, random email of the old poster, I was sitting in another friend's living room describing a work-in-progress that was "really rich in lush, textural detail like heavy crosshatching." Ironically enough the title of the work is a book-length story called "Dancing Bear" - more on that later. The logos are applied using advanced printing. Update: Okay so now this is wonderful + weird. It measures 4.0x3.5x0.5 Inches, and features the standard billfold, 5 card slots, and windowed ID holder. This in turn triggered another memory, that another friend had an awesome tattoo based on the poster (to my knowledge the only tat ever done of one of my drawings), and he emailed me a snapshot of it, very cool: potlucks at cabins, bonfires, music + friends. Man were those ever some great times with such good people in the neighborhood. This is around the time we had gotten the very first color copier in Fairbanks, and I was in heaven playing around with it at work. pre-computer, made way back when I worked at DateLine Copies: I had first assembled cut-up photocopies of the bears around a digital copy of the rose (done for an art class pen + ink assignment), then made another master copy and colored that in with Pantone markers, and made a limited set of posters from that new master. One of the coolest Grateful Dead pins that we have seen This one is a semi truck with all kinds of Grateful Dead images. the copy's been stuck up on a wall somewhere even after all her travels, an that just made my whole day. The Bears originally appeared on the back cover. from WikipediaĪ dear old friend long since migrated to the Lower 48 recently emailed a scan of this to me. bear print that Thomas found and used as his primary artistic inspiration. Owsley "Bear" Stanley, who recorded and produced the album. Shop Grateful Dead T-Shirt, Tie Dye, Vintage Shirt & Hoodie at. Sure, weve had spin offs like Dead & Company (which we loved), but. With how many grateful dead t shirts you still see in the wild, its hard to believe that they broke up all the way back in 1995. Thomas reported that he based theīears on a lead sort from an unknown font. Grateful Dead - Officially Licensed Merchandise. Thomas as part of the back cover for the album History of the Gratefulĭead, Volume One (Bear's Choice). A classic from daze of yore: my Alaskanized version of the Grateful Dead's " Dancing Bear" icon done twenty years ago in 1994 ( here's a link to some more serious collector's info on the characters):ĭancing bears: A series of stylized marching bears was drawn by Bob Dancing Bear for coloring Anyone know where I can get a pdf of a dancing bear that I can print out 8.5x11 for my kids to color I did minimal googling but to no avail, so apologies in advance for being kind of lazy.
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