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Oil pastel is mixed directly upon the illustration board and then the lines are burnt into the illustration board to get that clean line I like.  The colour mixing is always a challenge as it must be done directly on the illustration board. Here stands a Guardian of the Ridge looking to come down onto the Gazebo Bunny back yard.

Further oil pastel work on the adventures of the Ridge Rabbits and Gazebo Bunnies. The Sultan often comes out and stretches in the sun to peruse his domain. Ridge rabbits who dare to venture forth are often chased and at times jump into the air and fight.  Here the Sultan is resting  --waiting.

The rabbits pop up throughout the garden.  Their pausing is that moment in time not to be repeated.  The young gazebo bunny found time to pause amongst the delphiniums.  Such innocence.

For years I have watched the Ridge Rabbits come down to feed and mix it up with the Gazebo Bunnies.  Sometimes they eat side by side.  other times they chase each other around the yard.  And then there are the times they fight -jumping up into the air and boxing with paw or foot.  there's a story in there somewhere. While walking around the pond something scurried over my foot and under the lilies at the edge of the pond.  I bent down to peer at what ever it was -thinking muskrat, mink  -but not a baby rabbit.  And there it stood, ready to run, frozen for a moment in time. Now this spurred me to put together a series of rabbit oil pastels  -I have a show coming up this weekend (Delphinium Festival).  I needed to have some new work and so I have been busy -and no time to get to the cottage. I used oil pastels and burnt the lines into the illustration board.

Manne just keeps on working.  Apparently inspiration is for amateurs  -you have to keep working each day to be a pro.  And so, Manuela has made a few more fabric flowers.

We have two shows coming up in July.  The Plant Paradise Country Gardens:  Delphinium Festival & Art in the Garden is July 4 & 5.  The Grand Valley Open Garden Show is July 11.    Mannie, therefore, has been busy making embellished fabric flower pins.  Each petal is made separately and then the  flower is assembled.  Even the button middle is hand embellished to create a unique flower centre.  The amount of time taken to make each one and the one-of-a-kindness (she can't make two the same)  makes each fabric flower a work of art.  

Life just got in the way-an excuse I've been using a bit lately.   Nevertheless, sickness, engineers, landscapers, pavers, art groups: all have conspired to deter me from my work and the the blog. Yet, somehow I found some time to add to my Puzzle Series.   I am not going to put them all up on my blog until they have been shown.   Then again, this one has been put up so I can look at it more objectively as an image. The lines were burnt into wooden panels and then I painted with fluid paints between those lines.  Please, provide me with feed back.