Fox under foxgloves

Spread 14 of The Night Garden.

Picture books

Client
Lucerna Books
Use
Spread 14, The Night Garden
Medium
Ink and watercolour on cotton paper
Size
A3
Year
2025

The only plate in the book where an animal is asleep. The foxgloves are there to give the page a vertical and to remind the reader that the garden is still a garden.

The fox was drawn from a taxidermy mount and softened until it looked like it was breathing.