Good morning! I'll hop right to this one... :) About a month ago, the image of 3 wolves came into my head and wouldn't leave me alone. I had to paint it... It was a painting of healing and strength, 2 things I was needing to contemplate. After painting that painting, I immediately had the image of 3 hares come into my head, and like the wolves, they aren't leaving me alone either. And that is how this painting came about. I'm not sure what these guys represent, or why some images just won't leave me alone, but the number 3 is very important in art. For instance, if you have the choice of having 3 items in a still life or 4, which do you think most artists would choose? To read more about the ubiquitous number 3, check out this article.
I have also been experimenting with mediums lately and in this painting, I used an oil based primer made by Zinsser and tinted it with my oil paints to do an under painting. I know, this may sound outside of the box... but I am in the mood to play and have read a lot about artists' love for Zinsser. I've experimented with it before and do agree, there is something about it worth exploring. Plus I am looking to achieve a certain atmospheric effect that the zinsser underpainting seems to benefit..
Splitting Hares underpainting
But the Zinsser has a very matte finish, and I didn't quite want that. So, after this dried (in about an hour - the zinsser dries fast!) I coated it with my medium (linseed oil, stand oil and gamsol) and finished it off. Now that I look back at this earlier stage of the painting, I wish I would have kept some of the looseness, but on the other hand, I wanted the rabbits faces to have more realism. Here is the finished painting :)
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