Thursday, July 19, 2012

Rabbit Fever



I'm still stuck on rabbits.




I tried making a little lion, and I do like him a very lot, but he's no rabbit.


Towards Easter I got inspired by Alice in Wonderland and sewed a White Rabbit and March Hare - complete with vests, a coat and a pocket watch chain. 




John Tenniel's illustrations inspired me and my bunnies weren't capturing them correctly. 
So I moved on.





To another bunny. 


Another literary bunny.




This may be due to the fact that I got some velveteen at SCRAP and hadn't figured out quite what to make with it. It may be that a friend's daughter had scarlet fever and the story got into my head. I tried to introduce some more character into them with surprised or pleading faces - trying to capture the parts of the story when the Velveteen Rabbit learns he has to be burned. They have bendable ears to be more expressive.


I've even toyed with a Runaway Bunny, though I'm not too sure.





And then I saw this marvel of a March Hair from Tim Burton's Alice. Brilliantly mad. And I'm back to Alice.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Illustration Friday - Suspend


I stumbled on this site - http://illustrationfriday.com/ - which made me happy.

The theme for this week is suspend. 

I tried a few illustrations in a couple of different mediums.

 A bubble is suspended - pen with colored pencil.
More bubbles - watercolors.


Ok I'm stuck on bubbles, and watercolors.



And finally, little Z suspended inside a bubble.