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This is an acrylic on board painting I did of the world's most famous invisible rabbit/pooka, Harvey.
"I was walking down along the street and I heard this voice saying 'Good evening, Mr. Dowd.'
I turned, and there was this big white rabbit leaning against a lamp-post. Well, I thought nothing of that, because when you've lived in a town as long as I've lived in this one, you get used to the fact that everybody knows your name."
I wanted to make him look a little more mysterious, and mischievous - he is a fairy trickster, after all.
Stylistically, I was leaning very heavily on Edward Hopper (isn't that a rabbit-like name?)
"I was walking down along the street and I heard this voice saying 'Good evening, Mr. Dowd.'
I turned, and there was this big white rabbit leaning against a lamp-post. Well, I thought nothing of that, because when you've lived in a town as long as I've lived in this one, you get used to the fact that everybody knows your name."
I wanted to make him look a little more mysterious, and mischievous - he is a fairy trickster, after all.
Stylistically, I was leaning very heavily on Edward Hopper (isn't that a rabbit-like name?)
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fantasy
Species Rabbit / Hare
Size 960 x 1280px
File Size 299.7 kB
Listed in Folders
Love your pic - that night city background is def'ly Hopper (Edward, not Harold!)
I bought a DVD of the movie a while back, always love to watch it. (I'm not sure its "the crazy people are sane and the sane people are actually the crazy ones" philosophy holds up, although the Pulitzer Prize committee liked the play enough to give it the prize for the year's best stage play.)
When Elwood hangs the painting of himself with Harvey it's the first sign the rabbit isn't a figment of his his imagination - evidently the artist could see him too. I always wished at the very end of the film when Elwood and Harvey are walking away from the camera we'd see the slightest hint of the rabbit's silhouette. Spielberg planned to remake it several years back. supposedly w/Tom Hanks in the Mr. Dowd role, but that project fell through. My brother did play the part in a local theater production; unfortunately no one bothered to record it and he lived too far away for me to see it myself; he did get a good review in the local paper though.
I bought a DVD of the movie a while back, always love to watch it. (I'm not sure its "the crazy people are sane and the sane people are actually the crazy ones" philosophy holds up, although the Pulitzer Prize committee liked the play enough to give it the prize for the year's best stage play.)
When Elwood hangs the painting of himself with Harvey it's the first sign the rabbit isn't a figment of his his imagination - evidently the artist could see him too. I always wished at the very end of the film when Elwood and Harvey are walking away from the camera we'd see the slightest hint of the rabbit's silhouette. Spielberg planned to remake it several years back. supposedly w/Tom Hanks in the Mr. Dowd role, but that project fell through. My brother did play the part in a local theater production; unfortunately no one bothered to record it and he lived too far away for me to see it myself; he did get a good review in the local paper though.
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