Black Bear Painting Monet The cool palette of slate

The cool palette of slate

capturing the cool

this scene opens onto neat rows of purple lavender that curve gently toward a small stone farmhouse with a terracotta roof

storybook atmosphere

brass and walnut

Black Bear Painting Monet The cool palette of slatePainted in a loose, expressive style, a black bear pads along a rocky shoreline beside a still mountain stream. Tall pines crowd the banks in washes of green and ochre, while a pale snow capped peak rises through soft cloud in the distance. The brushwork keeps the water and sky light and fluid, letting reflections shimmer across the calm surface below. There is a storybook gentleness here, a wandering bear at ease in a quiet, painterly wilderness. The