Easter Bunnies!

I have been channeling my inner 4 year old this past week or so, and have been doing some paper-weaving. I used the woven paper to make some Easter post-cards. To make these four, entitled Spring-Rabbit#1-4 , I started by weaving some sheet music and newspaper strips into the total size of the postcard. I then cut the rabbit shape out, and set the other pieces aside. Then, I made the backgrounds using watercolour pencils on watercolour paper. I went back over the backgrounds with a mixture of crayons, highlighter markers, regular pencils, and more watercolour pencils, then painted over the top again, using a mixture of fluid acrylics and regular acrylics.

On Spring-rabbit#3 I added some newsprint transfer, and some ink along the outer edges (for something different). I also sewed the rabbit to this one as an experiment.

I then inked the rabbits with distress inks, and hot glue gunned them to the backgrounds.

Because my watercolour paper was not quite strong enough, i sewed a rectangle of cardboard packaging (plain side out) to the back. The stitching provided a nice little frame for the bunnies.

I then gel-medium-ed the entire thing, front and back to provide waterproofing.