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About Michael Pape Fine Art Giclée Limited Edition Prints

Giclée (Gee-Clay)

Giclée is a state of the art digital technology that has made it possible to create a fine art print that is extremely difficult to distinguish from the original painting or drawing. Giclées are available on archival acid free watercolour paper and or canvas. Michael Pape Giclées use pigment longevity inks and have a lifetime warranty. Each limited edition giclée is numbered and hand-signed by the artist. Read More About What A Glicee Is.

Giclée - Regular Print Edition is a regular signed and numbered limited edition print, based off the artist proof. 

Giclée - Artist Proof Print Edition is a signed and numbered limited edition print. An Artist Proof is the process of the artist manually matching the original painting colour to the limited edition giclée print colour. For example, the pupil of an animal’s eye may be slightly darker on one Artist Proof than another. Each Artist Proof is slightly different in colour / different in color. An original if you will. Many artists charge a 20% premium because of this. Artist Proof Print Editions are usually limited to 10% (20 prints) of the Regular Print Edition (200 prints) for example. They are the most sought after limited edition by international art collectors.

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About this wildlife art painting: Winds of Change– Polar Bear © 2021

I want to pay homage through this exclusive original wildlife painting to this male Polar Bear orphan. This story started in Resolute, Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic, his mother starving and in desperate need of food. His mother made the tough choice to do what she had to do, a desperate act, and approached a home, entering through the living room window in search of food. The mother was shot. Before the mother’s desperate act, she had hidden this cub near the airport in Resolute. Hours later this Polar Bear cub wandered out, about the size of a large German Shepherd. An airplane mechanic working saw this Polar Bear and thought this cub at the time looked harmless, unfortunately he still has the scars on his hand from the bite. This Polar Bear Cub was gathered up and put into an airplane engine wooden crate and was shipped off to the Toronto Zoo. Currently he is 5’9" in height walking on all fours and weighs 1200lbs. His name is Inukshuk.

The focus of this NEW exclusive original painting for sale is the “Nose” of the Polar Bear for this, the largest land carnivore in the world; their incredible sense of smell is among its deadliest weapons. The ramifications of Climate Change and changing wind patterns is of concern to the survival of the polar bear: The Polar Bear's nose is so powerful it can smell a seal on the ice 20 miles (32 kilometers) away, sniff out a seal's den that has been covered with snow, and even find a seal's air hole in the ice up to 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) away.

This Polar Bear Painting strives to emphasize the plight of the Polar Bear facing extinction.

Polar Bears rely on their nose and sense of smell relative to the wind patterns to hunt seals (their main food source). Already under threat from shrinking sea ice, Polar Bears are facing still more challenges as climate change affects wind patterns. Traveling crosswinds gives Polar Bears a steady supply of new air streams and maximizes the area they can sense through smell. This is crucial when bears are trying to find seal dens that are under layers of snow and virtually invisible to the eye. Polar Bears survival will be affected by changing wind conditions due to Climate Change, if human behavior continues the same.

An Interesting allegory is this Polar Bear painting has the hidden shape of a “Heart”, a metaphor for a sense of hope, contribution and empowerment to the future of this icon of the far North.

It is the innate intelligence, emotion and sensitivity in all animals that I inspire to recreate in my original wildlife paintings. I have personally met all the animals in my paintings. I strive to collaborate with you, through my paintings, in a greater mission, to be a voice for animals and the natural environment in which they live. – Michael Pape

Polar Bear Painting - Winds of Change © 2021

Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas is Sold.

Limited Edition Giclée Print Available for Purchase Below.

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Testimonial For This Polar Bear Painting - Winds of Change

Your Bear is Superb!

- Robert Bateman, world renowned wildlife artist and conservationist.