A couple of years ago or five, one of my sons asked if I could crochet him a Pokemon character. He was collecting Pokemon cards at the time, and one of the cards had the character crocheted instead of drawn, and it looked cool. He said, “Could you make something like that for me?” I said, “Uh, I have no idea how to do that, but let me try and figure it out.”

This post is about a project I have started, Draw You Feelings. You can find it here and I hope you join me!

Though the emotion itself can be a bit scary, anger can be one of the most satisfying emotions to draw and paint. I can look at a situation with humor when I paint it, whereas I can never laugh when I go around and around in my head about it.

As the story goes, a high school friend of my mother’s came to visit, and when she put me in his arms he said, “Oh, you’re becoming a bear aren't you?” So they started calling me ‘the bear’ and the two fused together and I have been Shoo Shoo Bear, in some form, since then.