Purple Fox Conundrum

10/05/2021

Just a tiny bit of the foxy magic, from two years ago...
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09/22/2021

Happy Fall Equinox, from your favorite Fox! ☀ 🍂 💜

05/19/2021

Foxes revealing magic... as usual!

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Nature's Witness: Blown Away
A molting Arctic fox reveals a bit of nature's magic.

"WHILE EXPLORING NORWAY'S REMOTE SVALBARD archipelago one June, British photographer Kevin Morgans found a bit of nature’s magic. Spotting a lump in the distance, he was unsure at first whether it was a rock or an animal. Approaching slowly, Morgans soon realized it was a sleeping Arctic fox—the first he had ever seen.

A headshot of photographer Kevin Morgans
Crawling closer, Morgans waited with his camera until the animal began to stir. “First one eye opened, then the other,” he recalls. When their eyes met (top right), Morgans felt that the animal “was looking into my soul.” Soon it yawned widely (bottom), then stood to stretch.

Because it was summer, the fox was molting—shedding its thick, white winter fur to expose its brown summer coat. “To my good fortune,” says Morgans, “as it stretched, a gust of wind came through, blowing the fur all over the place” (far left)—and therein lies the magic.

“People connect with this image,” says Morgans. “They say they can see themselves, first thing in the morning, having just crawled out of bed. It makes me chuckle.” This whimsical image also earned Morgans wide acclaim. “I owe this fox so much,” he says. "

04/27/2021

I was on Radio 3 yesterday, painting a fox. Always love painting on the radio. You can hear the piece from one hour 30 mins, 27 seconds......
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000vgv4
This is the dancing fox painted to the music of Spellsongs Red Fox.

02/09/2021

Foxy magic, for this February day...
Thanks for making the world a foxier place!

"I have a giveaway taking place. There's a breadcrumb trail of journal and blog posts through the internet to find it. It includes a small book, a copy of the Silent Unwinding with painted foxes inside and Deepdeeplight watercolors
Do take a look if you like foxes.
https://www.jackiemorris.co.uk/we-are-the-foxes/ "

The balance of life as an artist and writer living and working in Wales: or, how to ignore housework.

06/20/2020

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Killing a fox to protect your chickens is not only ineffective, but it often makes matters worse. Foxes are territorial and will exist in any suitable habitat. When you kill a big, mature, chicken-eating fox, his territory will almost immediately be filled by two or three younger foxes. Even if you kill them too— even if you somehow kill every fox in North America— that won’t stop coyotes, raccoons, skunks, cats, dogs, and hawks from taking your chickens.

The *only* effective solution to wildlife predation is to properly secure enclosures and use humane techniques to dissuade predators. This includes securing coops and runs, top to bottom, with hardware cloth or chicken wire, installing motion-activated lights, and sometimes using weak electric fencing. Killing wildlife isn’t the answer.

Killing a fox to protect your chickens is not only ineffective, but it often makes matters worse. Foxes are territorial and will exist in any suitable habitat. When you kill a big, mature, chicken-eating fox, his territory will almost immediately be filled by two or three younger foxes. Even if you kill them too— even if you somehow kill every fox in North America— that won’t stop coyotes, raccoons, skunks, cats, dogs, and hawks from taking your chickens.

The *only* effective solution to wildlife predation is to properly secure enclosures and use humane techniques to dissuade predators. This includes securing coops and runs, top to bottom, with hardware cloth or chicken wire, installing motion-activated lights, and sometimes using weak electric fencing. Killing wildlife isn’t the answer.

05/13/2020

Georgia O'Keeffe. Petunia and Coleus, 1924. 💜

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In 1924, O’Keeffe’s growing preoccupation with daring color and form drove her to execute her first magnified flowers on a monumental scale. These powerful and highly evocative works cemented her reputation as one of the most innovative American artists of the 20th century and were to become the images most closely associated with the artist.

This work depicts O’Keeffe’s genius sense of color with a large pink petunia with yellow veins and a leaf of dark maroon-colored coleus set against a background of white with shadings of green and blue. Petunia and Coleus exemplifies O’Keeffe’s conscious tendency toward abstraction combined with vestiges of realism. For O’Keeffe, to abstract was to intensify. She wrote: “From experience of one kind or another shapes and colors come to me very clearly. Sometimes I start in very realistic fashion and as I go on from one painting to another of the same thing, it becomes simplified till it can be nothing but abstract, but for me it is my reason for painting, I suppose.”

O'Keeffe's flower paintings of the 1920's are among the most innovative and original contributions to early 20th century American art and to the ongoing discourse of modern art later in the century. Elizabeth Glassman observes, "Her art does not represent an age gone by, but rather, the brilliance of an American painter whose intuitions remain as provocative today as they were when her work was exhibited first by Alfred Stieglitz on the walls of 291.”

What is your reason to create? Let us know in the comments!💙

Georgia O'Keeffe. Petunia and Coleus, 1924. oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in.. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Private Collection © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

In 1924, O’Keeffe’s growing preoccupation with daring color and form drove her to execute her first magnified flowers on a monumental scale. These powerful and highly evocative works cemented her reputation as one of the most innovative American artists of the 20th century and were to become the images most closely associated with the artist.

This work depicts O’Keeffe’s genius sense of color with a large pink petunia with yellow veins and a leaf of dark maroon-colored coleus set against a background of white with shadings of green and blue. Petunia and Coleus exemplifies O’Keeffe’s conscious tendency toward abstraction combined with vestiges of realism. For O’Keeffe, to abstract was to intensify. She wrote: “From experience of one kind or another shapes and colors come to me very clearly. Sometimes I start in very realistic fashion and as I go on from one painting to another of the same thing, it becomes simplified till it can be nothing but abstract, but for me it is my reason for painting, I suppose.”

O'Keeffe's flower paintings of the 1920's are among the most innovative and original contributions to early 20th century American art and to the ongoing discourse of modern art later in the century. Elizabeth Glassman observes, "Her art does not represent an age gone by, but rather, the brilliance of an American painter whose intuitions remain as provocative today as they were when her work was exhibited first by Alfred Stieglitz on the walls of 291.”

What is your reason to create? Let us know in the comments!💙

Georgia O'Keeffe. Petunia and Coleus, 1924. oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in.. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Private Collection © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

05/13/2020

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05/06/2020

This adorable pup was found and brought in to Mancos Town Hall this morning. He was found by the elk farm running along side Hwy 160. Please contact Town Hall at 970-533-7725 if he belongs to you or someone you know.
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