I have briefly looked at some contemporary fox paintings and illustrations , and then decided to draw some for myself experimenting with styles and characters of the fox
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/fox-art?before=1342675439 Cool little blog I found, interesting to see the contemporary depiction of the fox here.
Last year I focused much of my painting on traditional British values, and painted many foxes and deers as traditional British animals,I also looked at painting them in contemporary ways and created some sculptures based on deer shapes, I used a mixture of deep darker tones and contrasted with bold bright colours. I also used different mediums of oil, acrylic, stencils with spray etc, this year I intend to keep my focus on British animals however I intend to link this in with my dissertation and explore the representation of the fox and perhaps shocking responses of the viewer relative to contemporary art involving animals .