sleeping squirrel studies from my watercolor sketchbook 🤎🐿💤 I used terra cotta pencil, a dark brown water-soluble pencil, and a watercolor kit. Image in the link goes to a patreon post more info and more squirrels....click if u dare
There's this gorgeous waiter at an olive garden my friends and I go to when we visit the city, and he's got beautifully styled gray hair, always smells really good, speaks like he's from a whimsical romance novel, probably in his late 40s.
Anyway, we were talking about visiting the restaurant and someone mentioned our favorite waiter, and I couldn't remember the term "silver fox," so I just blurted out "Oooooh yeah, gray squirrel!" And no one will let me fuckin forget it.
No reason, just wanted to post this cute squirrel.
Decided to use black in white since he was a grey squirrel on a grey path, might as well make him more "dramatic". Not that he needs much, they're so cute all on their own, just look at those little paws and fluffy tail!
Hello. I try to post beautiful things and this slightly chunky squirrel doesn’t look like much. But I have been keeping this squirrel and its (their?) story from Tumblr because I didn’t want anyone to get invested. I was certain it wouldn’t last beyond last summer and when it disappeared people might get sad.
My neighbor and I call this squirrel Shakey or just the shaky one because there’s something wrong with it. It can’t run right, is unstable when it walks, runs, or stands up. I think that’s why it’s chunkier than all of the other squirrels who generally are running around like maniacs at full speed, balancing on electric wires and other acrobatic things. This one can’t do all that. And I can only get its picture from the back because it is much more easily scared than other squirrels, who tend to be brazen. But Shakey knows they can’t outrun anyone so at the least sign of trouble they’re gone.
They used to have the biggest fluffiest, most magnificent tail of them all but in the last few months something happened. I don’t know how squirrel tails work but now it can’t fluff it out. The tail always looks skinny and drags behind it, never gets placed over its head like an umbrella or flipped around to show emotion. I don’t know what happened. I feel sorry for it but I admire how it keeps going. The others don’t pay it much attention.
I’m in awe that it made it through a winter and that it keeps coming back and doing what it has to do to live. Hurray for Shakey, the squirrel who is differently abled!
!!! I wish I had a picture to show you!! In our area we have black squirrels over gray squirrels, they're almost all melanistic gray squirrels! It's just the little pocket near our house, three miles away or so the squirrels are gray again! Anyway, sometimes we see squirrels (and name them, naturally) with some weird looking coats! My favorite was always Rags, short for Ragnarthan or something, but also just because he always seemed a little tattered. He had red spots! And patches! And streaks! In his fur!! He was a black squirrel but his tail was mostly red fur, and there were bits of red going up his body from his tail, on his haunches and stopping completely by about his ribcage? I think? The front of him was black, like any other melanistic squirrel. I thought he was just the coolest! He disappeared a couple years ago, but every now and again we'll see a black squirrel with a red tail nearby, not anywhere near as complicated as Rags, but red on black nonetheless! I like to think he had some children~ I will look for pictures!! I think it was before I got my camera though-_-