An idea for a painting can grow in my mind a long time before it is “born.” While working on other paintings, I sometimes will make sketches, as I often have many ideas in my head waiting to be painted. (I really need another life in order to accomplish what I want to do.) It's good for me to put these ideas down in the form of a sketch; sometimes I cannot resist, and the sketch becomes a full-fledged, finished pencil drawing. This fox originally was the first idea for what eventually became my painting entitled, “Pathfinder - Red Fox” - CB