Geometric black line drawing of a fox head with watercolour splashes in pink, yellow, blue and red, shown as a tattoo design without a placement.

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Geometric fox head with watercolour splashes

Geometric · Colour · Flash

A fox head is drawn in angular black geometric linework, with the facial planes divided into straight-edged shapes. Loose watercolour-style fills in blue, green, yellow and red sit within and around the outline, with splashes scattered across the background. The design is shown flat on a pale background, with no body part visible.

Geometric Fox Geometric Watercolour splashes

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

By the third week of August the Bramley trees had dropped more fruit than the cider barn could hold, and the fox had started using the rotten ones for paint. Tamsin found the first drawing on the potting bench, a sharp-eared shape pressed into the dust with a bent stick. Every line ran straight. Every cheek was a set of hard-edged planes, as if someone had folded a fox's face the way you fold a letter before posting it.

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Her grandfather said foxes were bad luck near the wasps' nests and worse luck near the cider. Tamsin said nothing. She had watched the fox at dusk, pressing crushed damsons into a saucer with one paw and dragging the colour across the barn wall in quick, uneven sweeps. Blue came from the sloes. Yellow came from the quince. The reds were always the windfalls nobody wanted, split open on the cobbles and left to bleed into the moss.

On the last evening of the month the whole wall was covered. Pink spattered the gutter, green dots spilled over the lintel, and the fox's outline ran from the eaves to the water butt in black lines that never once curved. Tamsin stood at the gate with her boots wet and counted the angles. Thirty-one. Then she understood that the fox had not been drawing a fox at all. It had been drawing the orchard from above, every tree a shape, every path a line, and the big red splash by the gate sat exactly where the old Russet had come down in April.

In the morning the wall was dry and the colours had sunk into the lime. The fox was gone. On the path below the gate lay one windfall, cut cleanly in two, its pale flesh turned upwards like an ear tilted to listen.