London bunnies

During my long January away from my studio, I had a lovely opportunity to get creative in London. A friend of mine, designer Charlene Lam, has decided to welcome the Year of the Rabbit by raising a virtual army of paper-mache bunnies and setting them loose on her East London neighborhood. Who knows what kind of bunny chaos will ensue.

Charlene enlisted the help of several others to get her rabbit army in order, and I was happy to contribute my own bunny to the mix. The group paper mache session was so much fun that I might not ever want to mache alone again. Once the bunnies are dry, Charlene plans to paint them all red before they make their public debut on the streets of London.

UPDATE: The red rabbits have been deployed!

Tags: art world, London, sculpture

AEDM 2009 day 8: London sunset

This week in London we saw a fabulous sunset. We were riding west in the front seats on the top level of one of those red double-decker buses, and the Christmas lights strung across the streets were coming on above our heads as the sun went down.

I’m hoping to capture just a tiny bit of that gorgeous moment in this little painting. This is it after the first layer of gouache; I’ll let it dry and then work on it some more.

Tags: Art Every Day Month, cityscape, London, sunset, UK, work in progress