#DANCING BEAR DANCING BEAR GRATEFUL DEAD SERIES#

Update: Okay so now this is wonderful + weird. 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. the copy's been stuck up on a wall somewhere even after all her travels, an that just made my whole day. from WikipediaĪ dear old friend long since migrated to the Lower 48 recently emailed a scan of this to me. Owsley 'Bear' Stanley, who recorded and produced the album. Thomas reported that he based theīears on a lead sort from an unknown font.

Thomas as part of the back cover for the album History of the Gratefulĭead, Volume One (Bear's Choice).

#DANCING BEAR DANCING BEAR GRATEFUL DEAD SERIES#

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

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