Digital oil pastel painting Still life with a Bunny and the Fibonacci Spiral and Golden Ratio

This piece was made from a view I snapped last Summer
I had made the arrangement , as I often do on Friday's in the Summer (I used to do 'floral fridays on my vlog') and liked it so I made a still life of it with my statue and some shells.

I had it sitting outside on our little table on the terrace with the sea behind and so I sketched it (I can't find the darn sketches) and of course I had to add an animal.

Imagined bunny by a real floral decoration
I have a love hate with bunnies, as we've SO many about that eat up our gardens. However, they often amuse one, popping their heads up in the tall grass or when they bound quickly onto the beach, blending their fur and sand and rock and dart back into the tall grass.

This fellow I imagined up, sitting on the table on the terrace, but I had seen his real compatriot earlier in the morning nibbling my flowers before he dove under the porch...the litte..."darling".

I often think if one can divide their work in half or in thirds and get a good composition from the piece then there should be an overall harmony

I know there were lessons somehwere along those lines back in school days, holding up pieces of cardboard with squares cut out to put over your work and see, "Is it sound" and then adding or subtracting; sometimes just making the piece one of the sections and scrapping the other half.

Of course many know of the Fibonacci Spiral
But the division of two I was speaking of, with this work, made me think of the golden ratio, which is "the Golden Ratio (two quantities whose ratio is the same as the sum of the total to the larger ratio)"

Now I know there was lessons on this at school but I always think of it, again, as if I were to cut my painting in half or divide it in 2 are both halves pleasing? And if I Do use the Fibonacci Spiral on them are they sound?

The Fibonacci Spiral at play

The Fibonacci says : "Rule of Thirds. This is used in the composition of a picture; by balancing the features of the image by thirds, rather than strictly centring them, a more pleasing flow to the picture is achieved."

Though I have actually used the golden ratio and the spiral with intention when sketching out larger pieces that are more involved, I often find I will simply try it out After I've finished a piece and think "Have I done it automatically"?

Of course the principles of the thing was meant to show that in harmony with the mathematics of the world, an artist intuitively created such balance, but of course, study and practice doesn't hurt, I always say.

I've always been fascinated by maths, tho I'm rubbish at them, but I know in poetry, art, music , writing it lives. In the quiet moment of even enjoying a view of the sea with birds in the sky and that rock, just there by the shore, it feels 'right' as if the worlds' vibrations and your own are somehow in tune and then I think of this...the maths of exisitence.

Well, however you view it I do hope you found my little still life with bunny pleasing to your eye and that you enjoyed it. I hope you find a moment in your day to indulge in your own passions and maybe when you're in a particularly 'in tune' moment with the world, see if the fibonacci spiral would apply to the view.

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