A fun little paint project i did to experiment with opacity and shading.

This constellation was interpreted as a bear by tons of cultures, from the Greeks with Ursa Major, to the Iroquois, who saw 3 hunters following the bear. I personally believe in understanding constellations from as many perspectives as you can.

The image used for the stars is a public domain image of Pleiades by the Hubble Space Telescope. http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/20/image/a/ is the original release for the image.