URSA Awards 2015
10th Annual
Competition

"Reach Beyond The Stars"

Category 11

Polar Bear - All sizes, all materials.

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11.1

11.1
Polaris is a 10” seated OOAK polar bear, length is 16” and body is made from long white Tissavel fur. German glass hand painted eyes. The nose, claws and mouth are hand sculpted resin clay. The muzzle is needle felted wool. Inner eye area and paw pads are leather. 6-way jointed. The arms and legs are attached with Lockline armature, metal bolts, washers and locknuts. Stuffed with poly-fil batting. Polaris is wearing a spiked black and silver jeweled collar around his neck. His features are airbrushed then hand painted.

Yolanda Levy - YoYo Bears
California, USA

 

11.2

11.2

Little Scott is a mini polar bear. 8" (20cm) long and 4" (10cm) high. Glass eyes and clay hand scuplted nose. Fully jointed. Shading accents.

Kay Cooper Cooper Bears
Kelmscott, Western Australia

 

11.3

11.3

Klondike is a 14" polar bear made of wool fabric. Double jointed neck with locknut and cotter pins. His eyes and nose are glass. Stuffed with cotton and granules. His back paws are wool felt and features are enhanced with artist oils. He wears a hand knitted toque with a long tail and has a petal ribbonwork ruffle collar in golden and dark brown.

Michele Seraphim Rees - Seraphim's World of Whimsy
Ontario, Canada

 

 

 

11.4

11.4

Berg is 16" long and 9" tall and is made with a dense polar bear white alpaca. Shaded wool felt inner ears and paw pads. German black glass eyes, black embroidered nose on his shaved and shaded muzzle. 5-way disc jointed and filled with fiber-fil and stone pellets.

Erin Roy - Bears*n*Bling
Ontario, Canada

 

 

11.5

11.5

Silvestr is 20" tall and created from alpaca. Paw pads are made from genuine leather. Claws hand made from Fimo. Hand painted glass eyes with lower eyelids and fur upper eyelids. Nose is hand sculted from Fimo and covered genuine leather. Open-close eyesand mouth. Tongue and Fimo teeth. 5-way jointed. Stuffed with fiber-fill and rubber pellets. Plastic spine in arms, legs and body allowing for many poses.

Marina Osetrova - Marina Osetrova Creations
Moscow, Russia

 

 

 

11.6

11.6

Bastian is 4.8" (12cm) tall and made from faux fur. Paw pads are made from long pile fabric with embroidered toes and modeled claws. Black German glass eyes and an open mouth with modelled teeth. Spine runs from head to tail. Legs are both jointed and wired for many different poses. He is stuffed with fibrefil and steelshot.

Natascha Sabo - LeftyBears

Baden-Wurttemberg, German

 

 

 

11.7

11.7

Noah is 15.7" tall and made of Steiff-Schulte alpaca. Glass eyes, epoxy clay lower eyelieds, fur upper eyelids, hand sculpted that open and close. Wire in arms and legs, lockline in body. Nose is made of epoxy clay and hand sculpted. Fully jointed using lock-nuts, bolts and discs in arms and legs. Stuffed with poly-fiber and glass pellets. Inner mouth is made of genuine leather with teeth and tongue are made of polymer clay and hand sculpted. Paw pads are genuine leather and claws are hand sculpted from polymer clay.

Irina Zlobin - True Bears
Republic of Moldova

 

 

 

11.8

11.8

Galileo is a 16" tall polar bear made with white German long faux fur. Black German glass eyes with black leather eyelids. Open-close eyes. Black nose hand is sculpted with polymer clay. Paw pads made with black leather and claws made with polymer clay. 6-way jointed. Legs and arms wired. body with locline. Sstuffed with steel balls, plastic pallets in his tummy, wool and cotton.

Annalisa Taddei - The Tuscany Bear Maker
Tuscany, Italy

 

 

 

11.9

11.9

Noah is 8.5” tall OOAK polar bear made from recycled off-white mink fur. Black glass eyes feature hand sculpted epoxy resin eyelids with hand painted sclera. Hand sculpted black epoxy resin nose. Wire armature in his arms which bend at the elbow. 5-way jointed with a semi wobbly head. His muzzle is scissor sculpted and lightly shaded. Black leather paws are needle sculpted and highlighted. Stuffed with fiber-fil and a pouch of steel shot in his belly for added weight.

Linda Joan Chiasson - Bear in Mind Collectibles
New Brunswick, Canada

 

 

At a Glance - All Entries in Category 11


11.1
Polaris

11.2
Scott

11.3
Klondike

11.4
Berg

11.5
Silvestr

11.6
Bastian

11.7
Irina's
Noah

11.8
Galileo

11.9
Linda's
Noah

 

 

 

 

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