Peeping out from their Burrows.....

A 15"x11" watercolor on 300lb cp paper.  The reference photo for the haystack came from PaintmyPhotos.  I am honing my skills on using night colors, so the focus was on color, not so much on composition.  My two reference photos was a house and a stack of hay, but it needed something more.  Something that would bring the empty field to life.  What lives and burrows in fields?  Rabbits and the beginning of a story.

Rabbits in the Field

In spring the hills of California are graced with poppies, lupines and mustard. This is my first attempt at capturing the colors and animals. The rabbits, well… I started this painting during Easter. I have a renewed respect for wildlife artist, the fur. 15x22" watercolor on 300lb rough