The Tale of the Haunting Bunny ... the One Haunting Me!

Cute rabbit reference photo

Reasonable sketch

Light glazes on B., using cobalt blue
I used staining colors for background , and it looked much too intense, so I scrubbed with sponge to lighten

Darkening B., using aureolin, quin. pink and indanthrone blue

Re-working background, using viridian [I've never used it before]
I am hoping it tones things down, and adds a more gentle green

Viridian worked well, I think.
Added some shadow around B. and leaves.

I've got a light glaze of the darker grey on his face, and I am starting to think there may be hope for the rabbit.


I am being haunted by the ghost of Smokey. He was a friend's pet for years, and for her birthday [in May] I thought I would paint Smokey. The only photos she could find were less than helpful, so I found some reference photos, and set out from there. The first attempt was OK, but Laara said he was darker. When I glazed to darken, I lost all definition; it looked like a grey Schmoo. For those of you who are younger, there once was a cartoon called L'il Abner. One of the characters, actually there were tons of them, was called a schmoo. Essentially, they were little, slightly elongated blobs, with faces. [My sister has a schmoo; she insists it is a pug]
I really like to be able to do a good job in whatever I do, so I am finding myself somewhat frustrated by this painting, hence the HAUNTING!
As always, please feel free to leave any comments! [back to the schmoo]