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URSA Awards 2018
13th Annual
Competition
"Reach Beyond The Stars"
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Category 11
Polar, Panda & Realistic Bears - All sizes, all
materials.
Large photographs are
shown so you can see and judge each bear's details.
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Entries are in order
by the date they were received.
Vote for your favorite - see link
at the bottom of this page.
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11.1
Mandy Panda is a 22" tall lass created in a combination
of wavy rich brown and peach mohair. Dark brown felt paw pads. Amber glass eyes and a brown floss nose. Stuffed with fiberfill and plastic pellets. Mandy wears a soft peach colored, cotton bolero trimmed in gathered cotton.
She wears a peach satin flower on her shoulder.
Donna Mae Hinkelman
Bainbridge Bears
Benton Harbor, Michigan USA |
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11.2
Yuri is a 6" polar bear cub made with Steiff-Schulte alpaca. He has a wobble-jointed neck and cotter-pin-and-fiberboard joints for limbs. English glass eyes, a Perle cotton embroidered nose. Ultra suede paw pads with pulled toes. Nose was sealed with beeswax before being hand-shaded with artist oil paints. Yuri has steel grit weighting scattered throughout his limbs and in his belly.
Christie Kotz
The Peach Peddler
APO AE,
USA |
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11.3
Yakar is an OOAK bear 17,5" tall. Made from a combination of light and beige mohair and alpaca. Nude color leather paws with hand modeled claws. Brown English glass eyes with needle felted lids. Hand molded nose, open/close mouth with hand molded teeth. 6-way jointed with double neck joint. Wired arms and legs, lockline spine, filling from sheep's wool and soft pellets.
Silke Hirschfelder
The Mountaineers
Goslar, Niedersachsen
Germany |
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11.4
Spirit is a white mohair polar bear 20" tall. Double-jointed neck so that he can look up or down, and all four limbs are jointed. Black boot button eyes and a black hand-stitched nose with detailed paws including polymer clay claws. Spirit has a smiling open mouth with a tongue. A Lapis Lazuli stone hangs from a blue ribbon around his neck.
Linda Ellen Brown-Trinckes
Beariety Bears
Ocala, Florida
USA |
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11.5
Sweet Smooshie is 2" tall and made from long pile fabric with sparkly long guard hairs. Fully jointed, stuffed with poly fill and has ultrasuede paw pads that have been needle sculpted. He has a tiny change purse attached to his back that carries a lucky penny. The chain is 35" long total and he hangs 19.5".
Rhonda-Lynne Lanctot
Lanctot's Loveables Teddy Bears
St. Isidore, Alberta
Canada |
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11.6
Tommy is 15.3" tall OOAK made with white and black tissavel faux fur. Black German glass eyes. Nose is hand sculpted in polymer clay as are his paw pads. 1 way-jointed. Body, legs and arms can be posed. Stuffed with wool, polyfil, pellets in his tummy and steel shots to add weight.
Annalisa Taddei
The Tuscany Bear Maker
Marina di Pisa, Italy |
At a Glance - All Entries in Category
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11.1
Mandy Pandy
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11.2
Yuri
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11.3
Yakari
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11.4
Spirit
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11.5
Smooshie
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11.6
Tommy
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