Into the Woods with Worried Bunny

I have finally made a decision about my next art challenge.  It is going to be “Into the Woods”.  That theme allows me enough scope to work in different media and cover a wide range of subjects.  Since my last art challenge involved a lot of time pressure, I am not going to impose a timetable or deadline onto it.  I will just create whenever my artistic mojo strikes but I will – mostly – create in response to this theme.

I decided my first work on this theme would be a block print.  I have not produced a block print in more than one colour since I was in my teens (so a long time ago) so that was a large element of my challenge.  I decided to work on a small scale in case it all went horribly wrong which also presented some challenges since carving all the branches and twigs was finicky.  My character is a bunny.  I seem to draw bunnies a lot – often zombified.  I think I was partly inspired by the Dr Seuss story ‘What was I Scared of?’ and the use of two colours in his illustrations also.  I wanted the colour element to be central and the black element to become like a frame or anchor to the drawing.  I could not decide on the colour so created versions of the print in both red and blue.  I think the red probably pops more against the black but the blue creates more of the feeling I was trying to convey.

Here is the red version of “Worried Bunny”:

And here is the blue version:

Which do you prefer?