Comfort me with rabbits

And other pleasant things

I see similarities between writing and painting. Like a fiction writer does as a fine artist, I think about characters, settings, actions, dialogues and tone. For example rabbits are one of my “stock characters” that I reach for to signify comfort, coziness and caring.

When doing my morning drawings I'm not thinking about creating a “success" in the external world, I'm cultivating and creating my inner world. So when there was difficult news recently, I mentally reached for my stock character and imagined a comforting setting and drew a rabbit in green ink.

During February 2021, another stressful time, I drew a whole bunch of rabbits in a variety of comfortable settings which became a children's book titled This Rabbit - more details and a downloadable ebook here 👇

Of course my rabbit characters also become fine artworks that are exhibited in commercial art galleries. When I create such rabbit paintings, in addition to thinking about the setting within the painting, I also think about where the painting might hang in someone's home. I think about kitchens and living rooms a lot. It so happened that the Caplan Art Designs Gallery recently placed my 5 panel painting “In The Rabbit Hole" in a clients kitchen!

There are more details and a receipe for spinach and mushroom quiche (comfort food!) over on my blog https://sueclancy.com/2024/01/15/kitchen-art-and-thinking-of-places/

I wish for you the cozy comforts of home and the care of a good sensible rabbit. I'm starting a new sketchbook and so, as a subscriber, you'll get more of my rabbits (and crows and trees and…)

BTW I intend for these newsletters to be set so that every nice, kind, gentle rabbit can comment. If you have trouble commenting, holler, and I'll thump on the buttons to try to fix it.