Rabbit With Ball (acrylic painting)

I was looking after a friend’s rabbits while she was on holiday. To ensure roaming foxes didn’t attack them I’d go and sit in the conservatory while they had two or three hours playing in the back garden. I’d write or meditate (not achieved levitation yet) and one day thought I’d take some paints and see if I could do a painting featuring a rabbit, something I could complete in one sitting. Here it is.

Wanting to finish quickly I used acrylic paint which dries in minutes. As you can see I blasted the canvas with horizontal strokes (the grass), turned it ninety degrees and then daubed in the general shape of a rabbit and it was finished in record time. You can just make out the ball in the grass. It’s not my usual kind of painting but at least you can tell the animal a rabbit and not a rhino. Not sure Sam was impressed though.

That’s the grass done…

Stay there rabbit while I try to capture you…