Cottontail Rabbit

Cottontail Bunny

6x6 Oil on Canvas

by

Cheri Wollenberg

Here at our home in Fayetteville we have two decks....an upper and lower deck that faces the north.  In the mornings between 6:00 and 7:00 am we go to the upper deck to drink coffee.  Many times there are deer that are passing between the forest treelines on the east and west of our house.  There are other little forest creatures that grace us with their presence too.  For the last several weeks there have been two little bunnies that jump, run and play.  They have been a delight to watch.  One morning I decided to take my camera out and try to capture them.  All my shots were from above and not too conducive to painting, so I decided to sneak downstairs, and see if I could quietly get some photos of them.  Needless to say, I had to zoom in quite a bit.  I took a lot of images to get a few that gave me what I was looking for as resources to paint.  I found that painting this image was rather challenging.  First, there was a lot of green around them, and second, the values were very much the same.  I had to take a lot of artistic license when I painted the small one.  I will have to try this little guy at least one more time or the other fellow.  Both were so cute.  Below are other images of them.  I think this one thought he was hiding from me and I thought I was hiding from him (chuckle).  To check this little fellow out, click Cottontail Rabbit.

Hiding?

Posing?

Pam's Bunny III

Pam's Bunny III

12x16 Oil on Canvas

by

Cheri Wollenberg

This bunny has white with brown spots. He is a flopped eared rabbit, but his ears have never flopped as they should. Instead they look as if they are airplane wings and he is fixing to fly somewhere. I've painted this little bunny several times. When I painted him this time I was doing a demonstration at an art walk in Rogers, Arkansas.  Of course I painted him from a picture, but after I finished him I had to make a decision of what kind of environment I would place him in. I decided to paint some rolling hills with tree lines in the distance. Thus, Pam's little bunny had a place to roam!  If you are interested in purchasing this little guy and giving him a home, click Bunny.


Footnote:  Pam is one of my painting students and she agreed to bring two of her pet rabbits to class one day because she knew that my grandaughter was going to be at class.  My grandaughter was about 5 yrs old at the time and was afraid of them!!!!  In her defense, they really were big.  I bet we took more than 100 images between the students and myself to get "one" good resource picture for paintings of those little critters.  They are NOT good models (laugh).