Artistic Polar Bear Challenge: 100 Ways In 100 Days. #83 - Sprinkles Collage

When asked for imaginative suggestions on how to create this bear, one idea came up again and again: collage.  Cynthia Schelzig suggested collage and transfers.  A resourceful and interesting, but possibly too time consuming idea for a bear-a-day.  One of Tracy Wall's suggestions was a collage out of wall paper samples.  (A wonderful suggestion that made me grin and chuckle, but when we first moved into our house, almost every room was covered in flocked foil wallpaper.  It felt like we were standing inside a candy bar wrapper.  It took weeks to rid ourselves of that horror.  To this day, wallpaper is not allowed on the premises.)

One of Deb Ward's suggestions was a collage using marshmallows for the lights, and chocolate for the darks.  As I stood in the bakery isle at the grocery store and contemplated the concept of artwork that could be turned into smores,  a sudden vision of those smores going directly to my hips popped into my head.

*Sigh*

Okay, how about something a little less tempting for the Calorically Challenged.  Then these came into view.

Hmmmm...I could work with these.  At home, the bear was sketched, and a thinned mixture of matte soft gel was used as an adhesive.

Sprinkles Collage Bear

I should have stuck with just the sprinkles instead of using the candy shapes in the background, but what the heck, it's all in fun.  And I have decorations the next time I make cookies.  A win-win situation.