Soft Spring Bunny Watercolor 8×10
Everything
that is real
was imagined
first.The Velveteen Rabbit
I “real”ly enjoyed
painting this
soft Spring bunny
with a bright, hopeful eye.
I never would have
“imagined”
just a couple years ago
that I could possibly
consider myself an
artist.
Imagine
it
Real.
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
In autumn the leaves come blowing, yellow and brown.
They rustle in the ditches, they tug and hang on the hedge.
Where are you going, leaves? Far, far away.
Into the earth we go, with the rain and the berries.
Take me, leaves, O take me on your dark journey.
I will go with you, I will be rabbit-of-the-leaves.
In the deep places of the earth, the earth and the rabbit.Silverweed, Watership Down
Currently reading “Watership Down” by Richard Adams.
Have you read this classic?
We are reading it in preparation for our upcoming book club.
Would love to hear thoughts from those who have read.
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
A Hare with Flair Watercolor 8×10 Saunders Cold Press
I found some time this past weekend
to splash some paint.
Once again inspired by the genius of
Andrew Geeson’s loose watercolor painting,
I painted this
rare,
bare
hare
with flair
that I dare
to share
if you care
to stare
or glare.
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
Funny Bunny 8×10 Watercolor
Every Bunny Loves Some Bunny Sometime…
Every Bunny falls in love somehow…
Well – I’m surely not Dean Martin, but I do love painting bunnies…
especially funny bunnies this time of year with Spring and Easter right around the corner.
And Remember – in case you doubt…
You Alone are Enough
You have nothing to prove
to Any Bunny!
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
I used only three colors to create all of the colors in this silly critter: Cobalt Blue, Permanent Rose, and Quinacridone Gold, which also also created purples and greens and a dark “mud” to be almost black without looking too black.
“Babette” pink-orange-gold-abstract-bunny-watercolor-9×12-140lb-fabriano-artistico
The weather was so warm here for a couple days this week, it felt like Spring!
I don’t remember ever having 60 degree weather in February. Even the birds were singing and celebrating.
The Spring-like weather must have been the inspiration for “Babette” the Bunny who somehow came to life one evening after dinner. No drawing – just started painting the eye and then splashing water and pink and orange and dabs of quin gold in the shape of a bunny.
And as for her name, it must have come from the hours of binge-watching Gilmore Girls on Netflix I’ve been doing since Christmas.
It was fun to create a Springy painting on a Springy February day. Fingers crossed I’m not inspired to paint snowy landscapes in May the way our wacky weather has been this year!
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
the creative life in between 