"Red Fox Under Snowy Pines" Heavy Blend Unisex Crewneck Sweatshirt

Burnt orange against deep teal-navy and off-white: the whole picture runs on that one warm note inside a cold pair. A red fox, seen from behind, climbs on a diagonal from lower left toward the upper middle, and it is the only warm colour on this heavy crewneck sweatshirt. Its head is turned away, so the face never appears, only the backs of two dark-tipped ears.

What surrounds it is weight. Conifer boughs loaded with snow bend in from both sides and meet in a point overhead, closing the fox inside a teardrop of branches. Round clumps of snow drop in two curving strings on either side of the animal, some as large as its paw and some no more than specks. The tail takes up nearly as much room as the body, long and bushy, fading to a white tip at lower left, and one front paw is lifted mid-step over snow-capped rocks.

The drawing is done in two hands. The fur is built from fine dark hatching strokes laid in the direction the coat grows, with white streaks along the chest. The snow has no outline at all; its edges are shaded with stippled dark-blue dots that thin out toward the white, while the needles are quick, spiky lines. It suits anyone who walks in winter woods, and it makes an easy cold-season gift.