Stacked Bunny Sculpture
Repetition is like saying rosary or a prayer. I used to stay in an ashram in India and we used to take walks and look at nature and recite mantras. If you think about a tree, it is made up of millions of leaves that are all very slightly different, just like flowers or grass. So I put two and two together in my head and realized that repetition is a divine message.
- Hunt Slonem
This project is inspired by the amazing stacked bunny sculptures of artist, Hunt Slonem. I first discovered Hunt’s work a few years ago while scrolling the interwebs. I fell head over heels in love with his colorful, neo-expressionist-style bunny paintings and his bold, mod, stacked bunny sculptures. I have been dreaming of creating a Slonem tribute project for a long time. I am thrilled that this long-standing day dream has finally come to fruition. Just in time for Spring, Easter, and HOP FEST! When I was developing this project I could not decide if I should go bunny sculpture or bunny portraits..so I decided to do both. You can read all about Hunt and check out his stunning work here. Hunt also has a super fun Instagram account.
Materials:
kraft colored tag board
our modern bunny template
acrylic or Tempera Paint. We used diluted acrylic in ink daubers
daubers (optional but my kids love using them)
good Scissors
hot glue gun
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Print out our bunny template or create your own. Cut out the bunny shape and trace it onto your tag board. Don’t have tag board? You can use cardboard or card stock. You just want the surface to be thick enough to handle the paint and stiff enough to stack. Once all of your shapes are traced it’s time to cut them out. You need at least 4 bunnies per sculpture.
You don’t have to use daubers to paint your bunnies. We used them because we had them out in the studio and my girls LOVE using them. A paint brush will work just as well to color your bunnies.
When your painted bunnies have dried you will start to build your sculpture. The base is created by drilling a small hole into the top of the wooden block and inserting the dowel into the hole. You want to make sure that the hole you drill matches the circumference of your dowel. When the dowel is standing upright you can start to stack and attach your bunnies with a hot glue gun. If you are working with little ones you could skip the hot glue and substitute with glue dots, double sided sticky tape or a stick of craft bond.
