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merimask — Red Fox Fennec Mask
Published: 2011-03-16 08:08:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 8258; Favourites: 235; Downloads: 192
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Sometimes, my customers have the best ideas.
This was a special request for a fennec mask, with red fox colors. The red is actually a bit lighter IRL, but I just couldn't quite capture it in a picture. It's super-cute!
Fennec foxes have those adorable huge ears and tiny faces, but they are desert foxes so they are sand colored. Red foxes have the most lovely orange-red tones in their fur, plus the stark black "points" that are so distinctive. This mask has the best of both!
As ever, hand carved *each hair is cut into the leather by hand with a swivel blade), hand shaped 8oz vegetable-tanned tooling leather. Painted with Liquitex acrylics.
Custom orders like this one can be requested only at my online shop: [link]
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Comments: 24
Oh I just love the masks you make!! Ever thought about what kind of fox you would be if you were a fox instead of human? I know I have. I think I would be either a fennec fox or an arctic fox
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And the last mask shop I visited said that fennec masks were impractical.
I do love seeing people get proven wrong. Great work!
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My boyfriend was the one that ordered this mask for me, for my birthday! Have loved and watched your work forever. Everything you do is fantastic! I absolutely love my mask, it's beautiful and exactly what I wanted. I'll be sending you a picture of me wearing it soon!
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All of your masks are beautiful and sort of intimidating/impressive but somehow this one manages to be those things while being the most adorable thing I've seen in a while. Just awe-inspiring.
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This is just fantastic. The lines you do in the leather just give these masks such great texture.
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The red fox is one of the cutest things EVER!!!!
This mask is so beautifully done, my friend, it's wonderful! ^^
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This is unbelievably adorable! You really captured the charm of the fennec face and the coloring you chose to go with is a great match. Great black detailing on the ears, eyes and nose.
I have to fav this!
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Beautiful work! I have actually stumbled upon your Etsy shop before. I have never seen your DA. It's a bit fun to see it from this side, and I'm sure it's just as nice to know you don't need DA for random passerby's to come across your masks!
Have you ever considered tweaking the colors in Photoshop so the color matches more closely to how it looks IRL? (Adjustments > Selective color)? That's what I usually use when the colors in my photos don't come out just right.
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SUCH a lot of work, carving the fur into this mask! Wow. But it did turn out quite beautiful. And I adORE the ears, as well as the black parts that goes from the eyes and down, for some reason. It looks great
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OMG I love fennec foxes so much!! THEY ARE SO ADORABLE!!! A great master piece for your gallery collection!
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This looks very, very nice. 
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Your Fennec masks are always awesome! The Red Fox coloring on this really suits it well
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That is so cute! The ears look like they'd be heavy though... are they?
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This is a really neat idea!
I bet it would look pretty gorgeous in artic colours too.
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Oh yes...A white fennec! I think breeders actually do offer special white fennecs, too.
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Playing around with the grey/brown details can be fun, too.
I didn't know they bred white fennecs.
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