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The CHARITY AUCTION "Moonbear Aid", initiated by German bear artist Angela Meier has been a success.In the whole 1.750,00 Euro. were raised and sent to
Finis is the last bear I have made for sale - especially for this auction . After 23 of bearmaking I am retiring from the bear world.
Finis is one-of-a-kind made by a special designed pattern and the only unjointed realistic bear I ever made. The shoulder height is around 4 inch, the fur is alpaca and mohair and he is poseable by a wire spine.
Although I have got nominations and prizes between 1993 and 2003 I consider my work as a "bear teacher" more valuable. I am glad my book "A bear of my own" as well as my CD "Teddies, bears and allt that..." could help bearmakers all over the world to improve their bearmaking and find more joy in their hobby. In the last years I spent most time in my bearmaking online school and taught how to design and make classical teddybears as well as realistic bears and dogs. Now my students were those to get the prizes and I am very proud of them.
After 23 years of bearmaking I am retiring now. I will not make bears any longer and don't teach classes.
Nevertheless my CD-Rom "Teddies, bears and allt that..." . will still be available from me.In many years of bearmaking I had lots of contacts and made friends all over the world. The bear shows brought me to the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland, to England and even to the USA and everywhere I made wonderful experiences I would never want to miss. It is time to say good bye now, but I never will forget the lucky moments in the bear world.
My very last online class now came to and end too. This was a class for very experienced bearmakers to design and make a realistic dog of their own choice.
As a special highlight we met for a weekend to give the dogs the last finishing touches and of course had a lot of fun.
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Christiane LeisBeside the very realistic fox by Christiane Leis my students Monika Petri and Heike Hilkenbach made portraits of their own dogs. Look at the pictures to see how successful they ended their task.
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Rotraud Ilisch
Antoniusstr.11
D-48249 Dülmen
Deutschland / Germany
Telefon 02594 81745
baer.und.co@rotraud-ilisch.de
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