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	REALLY  ROASTED... This thumbnail sketch was about three quarters of an inch high in my sketchbook. The first real sketch had the bear, in a chef's hat, BBQing a fish. I didn't like the hat...if large enough to be real, it hid too much of the bear, but when it was smaller, it didn't look right. I swapped the fish for roasting ears for two reasons. First, the roasting ears had the "R", which I intended to use as the caption, and secondly, I didn't want to offend anyone radically opposed to eating meat and fish. In the end, the early working caption Roasted Roasting Ears was truncated to Really Roasted. I sometimes take my show on the road to arts & crafts shows, and, when I do, I sit around working on a letter or two. Because I don't like to deal with water, I do it all in colored pencil on pastel paper. This, of course, became Really Roasted. Return to the TECHNIQUE page.