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On one of my off days I began experimenting with cut-out figures and collage. Here is my first little experiment.Yes yes, Watership Down. Good book. This doesn't really have anything to do with it, though it might have informed me subliminally. It was an unfortunate coincidence.
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Beautiful stuff! I always loved the little glimpses of the rabbit mythos you get in Watership Down, and I can ABSOLUTELY see the influence.
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I remember that movie freaked me out when I was little ID but I love the different styles of the rabbits you did here ^^
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Just before I read your comment, I just thought that this reminds me of Watership Down... I kinda thought of the old movie and the style there 
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Okay yeah first thing that came to mind was watership down, well it was a book/film of my childhood! However I love celtic style you did for the spirit rabbit, which really brings it away from any franchise.
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I love the flow of the two rabbits and the contrast of their forms, especially the realistic look of the rabbit on the left compared to the curled lines and 'artistic' feel of the other, the background makes them stand out and gives it a more surreal look.
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It is beautiful. Very nice contrast between the two, and just... all together, breath taking. I like it quite a bit.
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ahh! its a rabbit!
ahh! its a spirit rabbit!
did u know, some people who have Leporiphobia have a fear of Rabbits??
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I love the look of the spirit rabbit, the way you've drawn him is really beautiful.. almost art nouveau ish
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This is just perfect, nothing more to say! I simply love everything about it: the colours, the pose of the rabbits, the watery structure in the background and the details, especially on the spirit rabbit. It actually doesn't look like a collage, but thats not a bad thing I think and is probably due to the fact, that a scan can't really mirror the 3d structure and different layers of a collage.
How did you do the lighter spots in the white rabbit? I love to read and you said this was inspired by some Native American myth inspired fiction...Can you tell me wich one exactly? A story that inspired such a fantastic piece of art can't be bad.
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Both of the rabbits were cut out from paper that had previously been painted with acrylic. It was actually just left-over paint that I didn't want to waste, so I slopped it on some paper and tried some different textures without thinking of what I might make it into later.
The book I'd been reading was Buffalo Gals by Ursula K. LeGuin. It doesn't have Rabbit in it specifically but it did hearken back to all the previous myths I had read in the past.
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Burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.
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Ooooo! This is beautiful! While I was in Vancouver I bought a picture of a wolf drinking from a lake and its reflection was of a native american wolf! This picture reminds me of that!
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This is really beautiful.
My apologies for the people who can't manage to see anything past popular culture.
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It's one of those unfortunate things a body must just accept. Especially when presented in a place where popular culture is worshiped so strongly (and sometimes exclusively). It could have been worse. It could have been Twilight
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... oh, goodness.
Looking at it that way, it doesn't seem so bad after all.
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Watership Down?!That is one of my fav films!Just as has been for years.Outstanding job mate.
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I KNEW IT!!! I was hoping this was Watership Down fanart; that's my favorite book in the entire world! I was so attached to all the characters and actually very frightened by the Black Rabbit of Inle O___O;;
Nobody could have made this as charming. I've watched your gallery for several years now and I'm so glad that you drew this! Well done darlin'~!
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oO It's not Watership Down fanart...
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Yeah, I noticed in the commentary but I'm still giddy that it subconsciously may have inspired it
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Maybe it could have just been subconsciously been inspired by BUNNIES?
Richard Adams didn't invent them you know. The concept of those small furry mammals with long ears wasn't new to Watership Down.
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Wait, what? You mean like there were rabbits actually on Watership Dwown and he wrote a story about them? I remember that he said nearly all of the locations in Watership Down were real.
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Ah, but rabbits don't exist outside of that book, didn't you know?
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Richard Adams just popularized them. They were actually invented by Uncle Remus.
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In all the spare time he apparently had on that plantation y'mean
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Yeah, also; all lions are Simba and dogs like wearing leg warmers.
Zoology according to DA.
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lol, this amused me greatly
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Watership Down aside, this one does seem very ying and yang, don't you think so?
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I think is a very nice expreriment!
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Never read the book, but grew up on the movie. Looking back, its not the best kids movie, lol, but it was great. I wonder if Monty Python got their killer rabbit concept from this movie/book?
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So I did in fact read your comments, but I misinterpreted it. lol. *facepalm* I think its amazing how coincidental that is! I mean, if you ever see the movie, this is like, picture perfect!Even the style is the same!
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That spirit rabbit would make for a nice tattoo design. I really like the positioning, it gives it a lot of movement(of the individual rabbits and the circular nature of the two together)
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Ahh... watership down... one of the best books I've ever read. I should go back and reread it.
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Well... the white edges on the brown one's ears do remind me of the story where El-ahrairah receives his starlight-infused ears.
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Absolutely beautiful!!! I love the stained glass feel of the darker rabbit contrasted to the more delicate approach to its pale counterpart. You constantly inspire me with your art and I always want to draw after studying one of your pieces!
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Admittedly, Watership Down was the first thing I thought also. Though I wonder why it's "unfortunate" that people may think so?
Beautiful piece though, I really love it. <3
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Seriously, I'm probably glad I didn't read that book before I have seen this picture. Nice job, and I really enjoy bunny feet done well. The swirls on the brown bunny are really cool, and also- I love the fact that you make your own paper too
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I love how NO ONE is reading the damn artist comments...
Artistically this is beautiful.
I'm sorry that people are unable to read BB <3<3
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She may have added that comment after they had posted that. Though the style is familiar to that of Watership down, so you can't blame people for that - only for not reading her comment but then not many people do. No need to get rilled up about something so minor, just ignore them.
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