The video below stars Juuso, a 17-year-old, 930-pound bear from Finland. In the clip, we the ginormous bear making paintings by rolling over paint and paper on what appears to be a large picnic table. When he’s not making art, Juuso appears to recharge his creative muscles by scratching himself and doing other basic bear things.
“We just leave paint for him, some plywood and paper,” Pasi Jantti told Reuters. “If we ask him to do it, he doesn’t do anything. He does all the work in his own time, when he’s alone, sitting and moving his legs on the paper.”
Underestimating the quality of Juuso’s art would be a mistake. As you can see from the screenshots below, he’s quite talented. Jantii claims Jusso favors reds and blues, but it seems as though the bear was going through a green and yellow phase for his most recent exhibition.
Earlier this week, 15 of the bears paintings were sold at an exhibition called “Strong and soft touches,” raising $8,500 for the Kuusamo animal center in northern Finland where Juuso has lived since he was orphaned as a cub.
But how was this great talent discovered?
“Juuso got some paint in his paws and started to make marks with them,” Jantti said. “We noticed that he liked it.”
Watch the video of Juuso’s creative process below.
