Black Bear with Cubs was completed 13 August 2014. It was done with oil on canvas 16x20 in size. Sows can produce from one to four cubs during winter hibernation, and they can vary in color, as depicted in this painting. The scene is a high-mountain lake in early summer. Snow is still on the tops of the mountains, and the bears have just come from their winter hibernation in the high peaks. The foreground foliage is cow parsnip and pine forests are a mixture of spruce, alpine fir, and lodgepole pine. The ridgeline just above the lodgepole forest on the right (paler green) is quaking aspen. Black bears are omnivorous and will live on plants, berries, bugs, small rodents, fish, and other things. The cubs will remain with their mother until about their second year when she will produce more young.