URSA Awards 2018
13th Annual
Competition

"Reach Beyond The Stars"


Category 11

Polar, Panda & Realistic Bears - All sizes, all materials.

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Entries are in order by the date they were received.

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11.1

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

 

11.2

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

 

11.3

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

 

 

 

11.4

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

 

 

11.5

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

 

 

 

11.6

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 11


11.1
Mandy Pandy


11.2
Yuri


11.3
Yakari

11.4
Spirit

11.5
Smooshie

11.6
Tommy

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Categories 12, 13, 14 and 17 were not used this year

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