Black and grey fox head tattoo on the inner forearm, its left side merging into leaves, berries and sprigs in fine line and dotwork shading.

Fox head with botanical foliage on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A fox head faces forward, with its right eye and ear fully drawn and its left side dissolving into branches, leaves and clusters of round berries. The linework is fine and sketchy, with stippled dotwork and soft grey shading on the fur, nose and cheek. The tattoo sits on a pale forearm against a plain light background, with the image cropped below the wrist and above the elbow.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Wenna had been drawing the same fox for eleven winters before she managed to get its face right. The vixen came down the hedge line behind the mill each dusk, and Wenna sat on an upturned crate with her sketchbook balanced on her knee, pencil going blunt, while the animal stopped to judge her. Her father said foxes were thieves and nothing else. Her mother said a thief could be a neighbour, and kept a saucer of milk by the back step all the same.

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The trouble was the left side of the face. Every time Wenna drew the fox whole, it looked like a fox in a schoolbook, all clean lines and no weather in it. So one October she stopped trying to keep the animal separate from the hedge. She let the rowan climb through its cheek, let the holly leaves cross its brow, and laid hawthorn berries in clusters where its ear should have been. The sketch looked wrong for a week. Then the frost came, the hedgerow turned on itself, and she understood that the fox had never been apart from the bushes it ran through.

The vixen did not come that winter. Wenna found the saucer still full in March, the milk skinned over, and a single rowan berry floating on top like a bead of wax.

She left the sketchbook open on the step beside it, the fox turned three-quarters toward the lane, and the branches growing out of its face into the blank page.

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