Nocturnal Bear, 18x18x1.5 oil on stretched canvas by Kenney Mencher

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Since I moved to my new home I’ve been able to use the space to take my painting to the next level. Having an entire basement as a painting studio has been allowing me to try out different things physically with paints and work on up to three or more paintings at a time over several days. Sometimes I’ll do a rough sketch on canvas in crayon and come back and add things to it over several days. That’s the case with this painting of my Nocturnal Bear.

I knew that I wanted to work with the themes of body positivity and celebrated the heavier male bear like form but I also have been trying to add a little bit more of a story in each of the paintings. In this one I thought it would be a nice idea to provide a little bit more of a setting of a bullish or bearish like character almost stomping through a suburban setting at night.

I think I got the lighting and the rim lighting of the figure just right and I’ve been pulling some other colors into my palette such as cerulean blues and grays.

This painting is on stretched canvas with extra thick stretcher bars so you don’t need to frame it.