To create the piece, I used colored pencils. When making the fox I used about 12 different colors of oranges and reds. I made sure the pencils were sharp before starting to lengthy process of placing each individual hair. To create the sunflowers I used browns, tans, orange, yellow, and a light red. All these colors blended well together when placed strategically. I use the orange to start near the base of the pedals and then blended in a lighter orange into a even lighter orange into a yellow. I outlined the petals with blood on color. When doing the leafs of the sunflowers I used about seven different greens on a lot of the leafs, I started with the darkest green and blended them into the light green. I outlined the leaves with a deep shade of olive green. To create the patterns on the leaves, I use any eraser to help lighten the color and then traced the inside of those eraser marks with the lightest color green.
For the background, I blended in green and yellow and then drew fairly noticeable sunflowers. I didn’t add too much detail, but also just enough detail to be able to tell just what is happening. The green bins were probably the hardest part. I hardly ever work with dark colors like gray so blending them in was semi-hard for me. Then for the sky, I shredded colored pencils on top of the paper and blended them in using a Kleenex.
A red fox symbolizes cunning, adaptability, and intelligence. These things are especially important to living a good life. If you have adaptability, you can easily adapt to the hardships in life. If you have intelligence, you can understand things on a deeper level. And if you are cunning, you are skillful, good at achieving your goals, most likely good with trickery.
To me a red fox symbolizes luck. I have only seen a red fox once in my life. They are such interesting creatures, always seem so mysterious. Such divine creators. So, when I created this drawing I wanted to capture the way a fox might make a person feel if they were to see one in real life. Along with that, the sunflowers to me represent home. Growing up in Onida, during the summer and a little bit of the fall, the sunflowers stick out like a sore thumb. Every field full of rows and rows of them and you never know what could be hiding in a field of such bright yellow and greens.