Rabbit Paintings

My exhibition, Rabbit Paintings, has just been taken down, which means that the paintings are now available and can be taken home immediately! A selection of works for sale is displayed below.
See something you like but not sure you can afford it? Payment plans are available.

Support A Good Cause
100% of the proceeds from artwork sales will be donated to Grant's Graduate Degree Fund. Foster the future by decorating your home.

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Black Sheep (Apex) + Black Sheep (Nadir)
$175 each or $300 for the pair
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On The Shoulders of Giants (Pandas. Crocodile Smile.)
$450. Payment plan available.
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Carrion Crows (6 pt. buck. Lay of the land.)
$450. Payment plan available.
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Brood Nurse
$750. Payment plan available.
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Snared Rabbit
$900. Payment plan available.
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Lotus Pond
SOLD!


Conquered Rabbit + Resurrection Rabbit diptych
$1750. Payment plan available.
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I am from battles! (Retribution Rabbit) acrylic and gold composition leaf, 2 panels, 60" x 70"
$3000. Payment plan available.
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Persian Megature acrylic and sterling silver leaf on panel, 78" x 28"
$4500. Payment plan available.
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Other Works For Sale
Not a fan of gold? I have a variety of other works for sale.

The Gates of the Underworld, 2006
$450
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Various framed watercolors
$120 each
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A selection of black ink drawings of animals
Economically priced at $25 each
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Please contact me at rabbits (at) granthanna (dot) com with any questions.

A Big Bug

a big tank bug to accompany the mantis


closeup of head. Mostly done; need to fill in some more values to bring out details of head and antennae.

Progress Continues

section of hill with two fox saints


detail of third fox saint

More Foxes and Insects

"inked" version of the fox from the last post


black-tipped fox saint


progress detail with work done on the hillock: little flowers, vines, lichens, an aeromouse


mantis lord. only partially colored, as usual.


detail

Lofty Aspirations Produce Ideas

Another fox, crouching on a cliff. Battle inventory above.

I have big ideas!

Some Thoughts on Comics

Here are some sketches and workups for a story I have been building slowly over the past few months. It started with this drawing of a firefox from last June

and draws on Asian (mostly) mythology, Watership Down by Richard Adams, Miyazaki's film Princess Mononoke, computer games like Starcraft and DungeonSeige, the Alien trilogy, Chinese landscape paintings and the art of Katsushika Hokusai, battle-epics, and the poem My True Love Has My Heart by the Elizabethan poet Philip Sydney.


St. Trueseam


St. Trueseam


Human form sporting same ornamentation and tattoos


sketches: swallows, rabbit saint, little fox, insect queen with a diadem of stolen pearls, black swan princes, some crappy cats and a little rabbit


fox saint with gems and medals


aeromouse captain


acheivement chart

The main challenge apart from working on the storyline, which will coalesce in time, is omcing up with a drawing style that I can maintain consistently for a long time. I love the line quality of the foxes above, but have concerns about weight once combined with value (ie. in a crowded scene areas of value would be valuable in order to distinguish levels of the plicture plane, etc. - but will such fine lines hold up against areas of darkness, and might too many fine lines become tangled anyway? (But, see this Hokusai print for potential refutation...)
[I know, what a terrible picture - why even bother including it?]
Anyway - did some sketching of frames, which I kind of hated until I worked it up in Photoshop a little:


blank bug hive

Bug hive colored
Now it looks ok, but upon re-examining the work of Hokusai and Chinese landscape painters, am reminded that one of my initial inspirations is the supreme clarity of line evinced by Hokusai, usually with no shading at all - must play to strengths and follow drinking gourd! No doubt recent aquisition of new drawings tools will help. :)

Image Bank

Kitsune


Alien Queen


Watership Down


Okkotonushi from Mononoke Hime


Starcraft


Dungeon Siege inventory panel


Clear Spring by Hong Ren


Hokusai

Comix Research

So in thinking about doing a comic/graphic novel/what-have-you, I've been buying and reading a lot of comics. A selection:


Scott Pilgrim, by Bryan Lee O'Malley. This one is really fun. Compelling story about Canadian indie rockers who are also ninjas. Not the kind of art that I draw, but I like it. No hint of self-imposed-homework-feelings while reading (and rereading :) it.


Skim by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki. Storyline, B- ish; artwork, A. Very different feel than Scott Pilgrim and most comics for that matter. Lots of brush work and fluid use of space.


Best American Comics 2008. This is a fun (and cheap!) hardcover selection. Some are great, some are pretty, some are boring. Overall a really useful survey of what is going on, I thought.

AND, In The Studio
Sanded down some old half-done rabbit paintings that looked AWFUL. Like the result. Painted a lot of things red the other day in preparation for gilding, but had no camera on hand. Am moving out of studio soon (in like 3 days :o ) so I need to finish up with stuff over there.

sanded panels