Tell Amazing Stories

About KBear Creation

Throughout my life I have made stuff. Early on it was drawings, sculptures, forts, costumes, improvised musical instruments, swords and laser guns made from sticks. There was always a story behind each creation. Everything tied into trying to communicate something bigger. I was fortunate to have performers in my family and received encouragement when I discovered my love for acting when I was young. My mother is a gardener and teacher. My father is an artist. They are both storytellers and I inherited their passion for sharing ideas and experiences with other people.

As a young adult the world of computer programming gave me an avenue to learn and create information systems, interfaces, and knowledge management tools. All of those were ways to share ideas and collaborate in new ways, while also paying the bills. For nearly 30 years I've tapped away on keyboards, moving bits and bytes around. That whole time, though, I was also drawing, building, doing theater, film, improv, voice-acting, writing stories and creating roleplaying games. I learned to shoot and edit video, telling stories with moving pictures and sound. Some of my favorite videography jobs were weddings, where I could ask friends and loved ones of the couple to share stories on camera for them to enjoy later, sometimes in languages I didn't understand, but the feeling was always wonderful.

I have created art througout my life, but only recently have I turned my sights on doing it professionally. There are so many way to tell stories that I can't limit myself to any one medium. Recently I have returned to woodworking and sculpture, inspired by the work that I grew up watching my father Jim Baringer do in his shop. I've found that wood has a quality that imbues any sculpture with a deeper meaning than just the shapes carved out by the artist. It has the history of a lifetime told in it's grain that cannot be manufactured, but it can be explored during the sculpting process and incorporated into the story that a piece tells.

In addition to woodworking and sculpture I am involved in creating drawings and illustrations, both by hand and digitally, for fantastical and wonderous stories brought to life by tabletop roleplaying games like Trove, the game created by me and my partners at Tumbledie Games. I've had lots of fun designing the cover of the Trove Foundation rulebook and other pieces for the game and look forward to growing my portfolio of work to ignite the imagination.

Finally, I am still tapping on those keys, building and managing websites and custom web applications, helping people to find their own audiences and tell their own stories. My plan is to leverage those skills as well as video and sound to build a community of people who enjoy the stories that I have to tell and the ideas that I have to share, and to help them to do the same.

If you have a story to tell or you get inspiration from the work that I do and want to help me do more of it, then I hope you'll reach out and talk to me about how we can get those ideas out into the world together.