Red Fox Portrait

Another fox?

When I did the first version of this one, it was in my art sketchbook. 

I liked it so much that I wanted to put it on canvas.

The first one was done with watercolor, colored pencils, paint markers, and a little acrylic.

The second one was done mostly with acrylic. 

We occasionally see a red fox, but not often.  I've never had one in my yard or had one bother my chickens, so I'm a friend of the fox.  

When I was a very little girl, I had two invisible friends.  Their names were Foxy and Cool.  My mother once asked me to draw what they looked like. I drew a kind of figure 8 or hour glass shaped blob with eyes, a mouth, and a few hairs on their heads. She used that as a guide to sew them into pillow friends for me.  One was pink and the other was yellow.  

Funny... once they were real... they stopped coming around as invisible.

Thanks to Tamara LaPorte for the fox painting in Sketchbook Revival 2023.

Acrylic Painting on 6"x 8" Wrapped Canvas

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Red Fox

I love smearing paint with a palette knife. 

I love seeing how it looks on the canvas.

I love rubbing my fingers over the texture after it dries.

This  little fox was done with a lesson from Tamara Laporte in a Sketchbook Revival 2023 lesson.

What a pretty little vixen!

I do try to be friends with watercolor, but I'm afraid it's just not a relationship that's meant to be. The very parts that make watercolor special and beautiful (like the blotchiness and unfinished look) also annoy me. 

For some reason, "Oo-de-lally, oo-de-lally, golly what a day" is stuck on a loop in my head.

If you're wondering... yes... still trying to use up that left over paint, but it's almost gone!

Original Palette Knife Oil Painting on 11"x 14" Wrapped Canvas

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