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Prismacolor pencils, micron pen and white paint pen and gel pen on 3.5x5.5 cardstock

Secret Santa Gift for citreneowl 

The excerpt is from "Watership Down" by Richard Adams which is technically about rabbits (but totally bad-ass rabbits).

“The full moon, well risen in a cloudless eastern sky, covered the high solitude with its light. We are not conscious of daylight as that which displaces darkness. Daylight, even when the sun is clear of clouds, seems to us simply the natural condition of the earth and air. When we think of the downs, we think of the downs in daylight, as with think of a rabbit with its fur on. Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not: and we do not usually envisage the downs without daylight, even though the light is not a part of the down itself as the hide is part of the horse itself. We take daylight for granted. But moonlight is another matter. It is inconstant. The full moon wanes and returns again. Clouds may obscure it to an extent to which they cannot obscure daylight. Water is necessary to us, but a waterfall is not. Where it is to be found it is something extra, a beautiful ornament. We need daylight and to that extent it us utilitarian, but moonlight we do not need. When it comes, it serves no necessity. It transforms. It falls upon the banks and the grass, separating one long blade from another; turning a drift of brown, frosted leaves from a single heap to innumerable flashing fragments; or glimmering lengthways along wet twigs as though light itself were ductile. Its long beams pour, white and sharp, between the trunks of trees, their clarity fading as they recede into the powdery, misty distance of beech woods at night. In moonlight, two acres of coarse bent grass, undulant and ankle deep, tumbled and rough as a horse's mane, appear like a bay of waves, all shadowy troughs and hollows. The growth is so thick and matted that event the wind does not move it, but it is the moonlight that seems to confer stillness upon it. We do not take moonlight for granted. It is like snow, or like the dew on a July morning. It does not reveal but changes what it covers. And its low intensity---so much lower than that of daylight---makes us conscious that it is something added to the down, to give it, for only a little time, a singular and marvelous quality that we should admire while we can, for soon it will be gone again.” 

― Richard AdamsWatership Down

References:
Barn owl 3 by CRStock 
Four Glowing Candles by DarkenedHeart-Stock 
open book stock by ShinyStocks 
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I must say that this piece strongly reminds me of Sorien from the Ledgendon of the Guardians the Owls of Gahool. This piece invokes and captures the wanderlust of the main hero and his love for stories. I understand that may not of been the intent behind this piece but the impact is still very strong. Keep up the great work. This piece is likely one of my favorite pieces that invoke the story of other tales while still being original and not at all from the other stories. You and others have done this for me in your art and it is why I love Deviant Art!