Designs in a Rock

This rock is naturally formed, creating designs.  Often, those white bands or stripes, called veins, are quartz or calcite. Quartz filled the fissures and cracks in rocks. The calcite was formed from the precipitation of calcium carbonate from water running over and through the rocks.

Designs in a Rock

Whimsical Designs on Bears

Bearfootin’ Public Art Walk is a whimsical, playful public art display, with the much-loved Bearfootin’ bears of Downtown Hendersonville.

Here are three bears: one with a wolf-themed shawl, another with bright yellow designs, and the last with an abstract painting.

Wolf-themed Shawl on a Black Bear

Bear with Bright Yellow Designs

Abstractly Painted Bear

Bear with Flowers and Leaves

In downtown Hendersonville, 20 works of bear art are displayed during the Annual Bearfootin’ Art Walk program. Here are some with artsy, colorful designs of flowers and leaves.

Bear with Flowers and Greenery

Bear with Flower Designs

Bear with Leaves and Flower Designs

Flowery Bear

Colorful Bear

The painted bear that lines up on Hendersonville’s Main Street at the opening presentation of the Bearfootin’ Art Walk and Auction. The bears, each designed and decorated by a different local artist, stand on the street corners of downtown until October, when they’ll go to the highest bidder in a month-long silent auction.

Colorful Bear