Do you know who Great Grandpa Bunny Bunny is? You might think this is silly, but the beautiful blue shadows on the snow that fell here earlier this week have made me think of this character from my childhood. In a Little Golden Book called Walt Disney’s Bunny Book, Great Grandpa Bunny Bunny teaches all the little bunnies in Bunnyville to paint everything around them – the flowers, the autumn leaves, the butterflies, the ferns… and the winter shadows. The little 22-page book had great illustrations of the happy bunnies creating all this beauty. “They painted up that whole wild wood till it sparkled and it gleamed.” I loved this book, and a few years ago I accidentally found it in an antique store, with its retail price of 39¢ on the cover… so it has a place of honor in my art library! Do you think my early reading had anything to do with how much I love to paint nature, especially capturing its magnificent colors? I certainly enjoyed painting the blue snow shadows in “December Snow.”
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| Perhaps bunnies painted these blue shadows from last summer’s Japanese irises! |
Marina
I found your website because I wanted to show my friend what the local forest looked like today 🙂 I was walking there with my dog, the sun was begining to set, and all I could think of was "Grampa Bunny was here!" It was such joy to find the image from the book, thank you!
Judy Lavoie Art
Neat to know others were affected by this little book. My sister remembers the painted sunsets.
DARIAN ZAM
Grandpa Bunny was definitely "my mentor", this book had a huge influence on me as a child, a young artist. I still find it really evocative today. So glad to have run across it again, I just couldn't remember the name but knew where my obsession with vintage Easter eggs came from…