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Among the wee folk community, Dwarf Rabbit Gremlins rarely evoke fond memories in the minds of those who have had dealings with them. Petty criminal acts such as super-gluing coins to crowded sidewalks, souping up cars that are better off as scrap metal, and occasional indecent exposure (did you notice that none of these gremlins are wearing pants?), have resulted in many being arrested and gaoled over the years. Of course, being so small, escape from prison is easy for the gremlins and is usually made within minutes, the sewer pipe being the preferred route. Less adventurous gremlins opt for slipping between the bars and strolling a merry gauntlet of armed guards and saliva-fanged dogs.The authorities are reluctant about labeling escaped Dwarf Rabbit Gremlins as "at large" for fear of causing confusion in the populace.
Acrylic on illustration board, 25 x 40 cm.
This car was a few streets down from where I live, and it looked so interesting I immediately wanted to paint it. I've done too few mechanical things, so this was a nice change from the natural/ landscape backgrounds that usually accompany my stuff. If you are able to identify the make of this car, you have too much time on your hands. According to the owner, it was going to be repaired, though it disappeared from his house a few days after the photos were taken. Lucky me! I almost missed out on painting it.
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Esta imagen la encontrΓ© hace mucho tiempo, de pura casualidad, en Elfwood, hace unos 2 aΓ±os.
Me ha costado horrores volverla a encontrar, la verdad XD
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That is an awesome piece! I saw it and loved it.
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Thanks very much; glad you liked it!
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Cheers, glad you enjoyed it.
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Hmmm, ok, the wheels are making me think it's a chevy S-10 pick-up, but the bumper doesn't really look like an s-10, but it's shape reminds me of an old Dodge Shadow, or an 80's subaru...
That aside, you did a pretty damn good job on getting the detail of that junker. Love how you added the damage of its superstructure and all the other details. Oh, cute critters by the way.
yep, got to 
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Thankyou very much for the comment; it's an old Torana that has now disappeared from the owner's yard. Thanks for saying the critters are cute, too. Cheers.
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Wow Donna!! 
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Thanks mate. 
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Wow, that's great--taking a random object like a junked car and adding fantastical elements to it.... Very cool.
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That's cool. :-] I need to step out of my drawing comfort zone more often....
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Gorgeous composition. It's wonderfully offbeat and unique. Great details and fine colors. Excellent creature designs. Their form and poses are quite appealing. Fabulous lighting as well.
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Wow, thanks for the awesome comment! I'm very flattered. I was lucky enough that the initial photograph just needed a bit of cropping before I could use it as a reference.
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You're welcome
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ugh that is so darn cool! I love those gremmies, I hope we will be seeing more of their nekkid maleficiousness in the future 
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I am thinking of doing some sequels, hopefully they can poke their noses into future works.
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Wow! 
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I sort of agree with you- I painted around outline of the gremlins and left them till last, and I didn't expect the car to turn out the way it did. I was disappointed with the relative lack of realism in the gremlins, but I just wanted to finish it. I sort of wish they weren't there sometimes too!
Thankyou for the lovely comment!
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As a dude with a stripped down XB panalvan in my drive way (no work done on it in 2 years 
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awesome!!!!!!!!!!! The car looks so very real, and the whole piece works so well. Love your style!
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Thankyou m'deary.
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ok I'm still trying to figure out what type of car it is
Can you send some of those lil guys my way, they can soup up my trans am
Wonderfully painted Donna! The details in the old car are amazing and I love the colours!
how do you get your acrylics to work for you like that?
Love it! (as usual)
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At the moment, I work on my pictures from front to back (usually) and I don't really use washes anymore, just opaque paint. I thin all my paints with just a drop or two of water to make them flow a bit, but not so they're runny. I tend to work sort of like a "colour-by-numbers" in that I really try to keep it neat at all times so I don't obliterate the lines underneath. If I'm painting a sky or something, I just let it go a bit messy though.
I use a lot of black and white, and payne's grey and burnt/ raw umbers. This one turned out a bit better than my other works, because I used a photo reference. I use small brushes most of the time, a no. 7 for large areas, a no. 2, and 00 and 000 for tiny details.
I'm trying to think of what else I do. I place the middle tone down first, then put darks over it, and highlights last of all. I do a lot of wet-on-dry mixing, but I guess with acrylics there's not much time for wet-in-wet blending anyway.
I have no idea if any of this would be of any help to anyone, so I'm sorry if it's just a load of babbling, or acrylic 101-esque.
Oh, it's a Torana, and thankyou Caroline!
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You do use alot of similar tecniques to myself Donna (except you exicute them so much better) but thank you I do think a few of the tips you have highlighted will help steer me in a better direction with my acrylics...
Torana.. lol i almost bought one of those
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I'm totally digging that old junker. There's so much detail and it's wonderfully painted. The flat tire is my favorite part (although I'm not sure why, heh).
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Yeah, it was a cool subject.
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I love your short story. I did not expect you to be sensible both in words and colours.
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Thankyou, that's nice of you to say so. I write little stories for most of the pictures I do nowadays.
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>.< THOSE GUYS ARE SO CUTE!
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Thankyou very much!
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That's awesome! The little creatures are so cute and curious looking and I absolutely love how worn and old the car looks. Definitely a lot of character in it! Wonderful work!
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Thankyou so much for the kind comment. I liked the car the moment I saw it- it looked so incredibly interesting!
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They may be small, but those gremlins have a lot of personality! Another great piece of art, and description... I love it. Well done.
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Dwarf Rabbit Gremlins? There're a lot of those in my attic
Awesome pic! Great details on the car; looks very realistic!
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Yes, I bet they're gradually stealing all your favourite movies and books and things too. They have a tendency to hoard things. 
Thankyou for the lovely comment!
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This is just so unbelievably cool and I just love how realistic it looks.
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Thankyou very much.
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Really. I would have thought you spent more time then normal on it.
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This is priceless, very well done.
You know I had a Torana once, it sure kept me awake when driving - no brakes when raining, bits falling off, smoke coming from under the dash, all that fun stuff to freak you out, had a good motor though, went like mad(gosh that was a long time ago).
Love the little gremlins, they remind me of the cheeky little green guy with the sticky feet in the tyre ads on TV(the ones with Brocky).
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Isn't Brocky a mean jerk to that little guy (I think it might be a gecko, but it's a mighty fluorescent gecko if it is)! He kicks it and smacks it off with the windscreen wipers.
Thankyou for the comment Wendy.
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Hey, that's my wife's car!
You never know if that car has a mysterious power which compels the gremlin-folk to venerate the primordial six-cylindered rust-beast. :3
Perhaps they know things that we do not. o.O
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Perhaps. Something tells me they'd be just as happy with a lawnmower as a car, which opens up a whole heap of potential sequels for this picture.
Thanks for dropping by Paul.
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Fantastic rendering! The background looks so real with all the textures you've put into it, and the creatures fit right in. And as always, a wonderfully descriptive and entertaining explanation. ^^ I love that all your pictures have so much meaning behind them.
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Thankyou very much- my quest for silliness is far from over; surely I can uncover more inane creatures and settings. So little time, so much stupidity...
Thanks for the comment!
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