Summer Berries - 3"x5"x2" stretched canvas, acrylic, frosted ruby glass size 08 Toho beads.  
 
Summer Berries is a beautiful piece of original art created by an Anishnaabe/Lenape artist Keitha Keeshig-Tobias. The artwork features a woodland style bear, known as Mkwa, holding a realistic raspberry, also known as Miskomin in Anishnaabemowin. The raspberry is created with juicy size 08 frosted ruby glass Toho beads. These ripe berries in Mkwa's belly is also a prayer/wish for protection, family, and sustenance to the people suffering aroung the world like those of Palestine. The artwork is created using acrylic paint on canvas and adorned with large glass seed beads woven to create realistic berries. This artwork is not just a beautiful piece to hang on your walls, it also can brighten any desk with it jewel like berry medicine.