Teddy bear inspiration for childrens memorial day

Hi everybody I have volunteered to face paint at a teddy bears picnic for an organization called blairebears. They make teddy bears to place the urns of children into teddy bears for their families to cuddle and remember their children. I am comming up with some teddy bear designs to paint at the event and welcome some inspiration. The ideas I have so far are full face teddy bears in pearl colours, bears peaking over rainbows or holding hearts...also the founder of the organizations daughter loved lady bugs so I am trying to incorporate this into some designs too.

Ugh how heart wrenching..I can't even imagine. You could do a teddy bear with a lady bug on his nose making him go cross-eyed. You could do a teddy bear angel sitting on clouds...let me know how it goes.

Oh what lovely ideas! It's not untill end of April but I will do

Teddy bear with a small butterfly flying off his hand and having the bear looking up at it go. Love the other ideas as well. What a wonderful gift you are giving.

OMG i was up all night thinking of ideas, pirate teddies, patch work teddies, care bare teddies, glitter teddies and all the ideas from you guys my creative juices are flowing. Thats the easy part now trying to get my painting to match the picture in my mind!!! LOL .Thank goodness i have time to practice i am not very fast and want to honor the memories with quality work but have only done 3 event/parties so far. Thank goodness for the inspiration from the paint community and the classes i just attended!!!

Wow that is truely a great thing they have for the parents. It is so nice of you to do this. I was thinking maybe a angelbear? a bear with a halow.
Good luck

this is my Care Bear face

the bear in this picture was done with onestroke..you could add lots of things to it!

this one was really fast and easy, using the TAG skin split...

Kim Brennan did a super cute teddy bear in here once with stitching on its face try looking it up...

And Heather from Silly Farm has the most adorable teddybear angel design on their free video corner...I recently did a teddybears picnic but did'nt get any pics! you will have loads of fun...

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Apologies if this comes up twice, thought I'd done this already. Anyway, abit of a rubbish photo and it even smudged but just to give you an idea on a super quick teddy bear using sponge mops for ears, head and body but you could add arms and legs too. I put quick flowers on it but of course you could add as much detail as you want making each bear individual...point is this is really quick so would make a good cheek art option.

Well done you for doing this, I don't suppose it will be an easy one but hopefully hugely rewarding

Thank you everyone some great inspiration and quick ideas and the visual pics. I can now see where I was struggling with the bear shape. At least my bears will stop looking puppy like lol. Done heaps of research and with mine and everyone input have a good range of designs. Will post them when I get some pictures.