Tea Fox ✶

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Mixed media artist 🌿 Inspired by folklore, daydreams, and nature. Print Shop: teafoxillustrations.etsy.com Support: patreon.com/teafoxillustrations Links: teafoxillustrations.carrd.co

Image shows a photo of a mixed media painting featuring an anthropomorphic white rabbit figure holding a golden mirror in her paws and wearing a soft blue kimono decorated with lotus flowers. She floats peacefully over a tea stained background. Created with white acrylic, watercolor, colored pencil, and green tea on illustration board. Inspired by the moon rabbit of folklore.
Photo shows a figure painting of a masked fox woman dressed in a kimono decorated with plum flowers and holding a lantern. She is surrounded by three flames of blue foxfire. Inspired by the kitsune of Japanese folklore. Created on tea stained illustration board using watercolor, white ink, and colored pencil.
Image depicts a digital sketch of a young woman wearing a fox mask and balancing a moon staff over her shoulder. Her hair is decorated with stars, and she wears a twin tail cloak over a simple dress. The cloak features two tasseled bells on each end, the tails decorated with tulips and hearts. The moon staff features 7 cards with astrological symbols. Created on iPad in Procreate.
Image shows a digital sketch of a rabbit woman floating peacefully and cradling a round, magic mirror in her paws. Inspired by Japanese folklore. Created on iPad in Procreate.
Image shows two masked fox women standing near one another, one in a cinched waist dress and cloak and the other in kimono. Both hold staves, one topped with a moon and flame, the other a lantern. Created on iPad in Procreate.
Image shows a digital, full body character sketch of a masked fox woman holding a lantern staff and dressed in kimono. Inspired by the kitsune of Japanese folklore. Created on iPad in Procreate.
Image shows a photo of a mixed media illustration depicting a fox woman dressed in kimono and balancing on a staff, breathing out a white mist of gold stars into the night. Completed using watercolor, colored pencil, and white ink of tea stained illustration board. Inspired by the kitsune of Japanese folklore.
Photo shows an art card, bottle of sumi ink, and a paint brush, the card depicting a young woman dressed in kimono and holding a white mask in her paw-like hands. Behind her is a halo made of radiating ink lines. Created on illustration board with sumi ink and color pencil.
Image shows a mixed media painting depicting a fox woman dressed in kimono and balancing on a staff exhaling a stream of glowing white smoke and yellow stars before a night sky and full moon. Inspired by the kitsune of Japanese folklore. Done with watercolor, colored pencil, and white ink on tea stained illustration board.
Photo shows a swarm of honey bees hanging off a branch of a bush.
Rough digital sketch featuring a young fairy girl dressed in folk-style clothing holding a moon staff and escorting two masked foxes.
Work in progress photo featuring a fox woman balancing on a staff and breathing out a spell of starlight. Paper is tea stained and I'm using watercolor and colored pencils.
Black and white line art depicting original characters, one a male unicorn figure holding a star lantern shepherd's staff in one hand and lily of the valley in the other, and the second figure a dragon girl in a smock dress holding a love letter to her chest. Created on iPad in Procreate.
The image depicts a digital sketch of a fox woman balancing on her staff (inspired by the khakkhara, a staff used by monks) and using her breath to create stars for the night sky. The staff's head is reminiscent of a plum blossom, the same flower traditionally depicted on her twlight-color kimono, and holds the jewel near the top center. Created on the iPad in Procreate.
Photo shows an original painting of my Lost Wanderer design, depicting a young animal-like woman in a red coat holding a marigold wand and sun wheel-like lantern. She is painted on a field of ultramarine blue with a golden moon and stars. Created using mixed media.
Image shows two 10x12 paintings of my Little Wanderer design, which consists of an animal girl wearing a red coat and holding a marigold flower wand and sun-wheel lantern. Background consists of a crescent moon and star bursts on a field of green tea stain and ultramarine blue acrylic.
Image depicts a digital sketch of a masked fox girl with long hair wearing a sweater layered with a smock dress. Tucked in the crook of her left arm is a shepherd's hook staff with a tin lantern decorated in cut-out star designs. Light is implied to be radiating out from the lantern. Sketch made on iPad via Procreate. 2025.
Sketch depicts mirror images of a girl wearing a fox mask, dressed in a layered smock dress and holding a large tulip flower wand. One has long hair while the other has short, shoulder-length hair. There are minor differences in their smock dresses, such as brooch and clothing neckline. Inspired by folk art and fairy tales. Created via Procreate.
Photo of a watercolor painting depicting a girl with brown and gold wolfish features and short blond hair, wearing a red hooded cloak. She carries a chrysanthemum wand and a geometrically abstract lantern. Behind her is a yellow crescent moon and four stars. Created on illustration board with watercolor and colored pencil.
Artwork depicts a masked, deer-like figure racing through a forest of glass trees, a red thread tangled up in their thick golden antlers. The moon floats between, seemingly caught by the creature. Created on tea stained illustration board with acrylic, color pencil, and ink.
Artwork depicts a masked fox woman sitting on a thick Japanese maple tree branch with her staff lantern attracting white moths. Three flames of foxfire hover around the figure. Inspired by the kitsune from Japanese folklore. Created on tea stained illustration board with acrylic, color pencil, and ink.
Image shows a work in progress sketch update to the original illustration Silent Crossing. The original sketch is at 20% opacity, while the fox woman is overlaid with an updated digital sketch. Changes include technical improvement and minor gesture adjustments.
Artwork depicts a fox woman carrying a lantern and leading three other kitsune across a stone garden bridge. Two follow behind while the third stands at her right, glancing up as if to intuit her expression beneath the white mask. However, the fox woman stares ahead, her focus on the path before them; the past does not need to be revisited in this moment. Inspired by the kitsune from Japanese folklore. Created on tea stained illustration board with acrylic, color pencil, and ink.
Art depicts a fox girl holding her jewel while sitting within a protective circle of blue flame in a forest among Jizo statues. A pipe leaves a long trail of smoke drifting towards the canopy. Among the trees hang straw ropes, further enclosing the figure inside a realm of spiritual protection. Golden sunlight streams down through the leaves. Inspired by the kitsune of Japanese folklore. Created on tea stained illustration board with colored pencil, acrylic, and ink.
Image shows a digital sketch of a cloaked wolf girl holding a flower wand and geometrically abstract lantern. A waning crescent moon and four starbursts are in the background.
Image shows an art card depicting a fictitious animal spirit with the body similar to a fox, an abstract face like the moon, and antlers tipped with gold. The work surrounded by the materials used to create it, which includes: sumi ink, micron pen, colored pencils, and white ink.
Image shows a completed art card depicting a fox-like spirit leaning through branches of a tree to observe a small blue and white flame, or foxfire. The work is done with sumi ink, micron pen, colored pencil, and white ink.
Image shows a completed art card depicting an abstracted animal-like spirit with a mask-like face and three-point antlers. Above its head is an eight-pointed star, with an additional six stars in the background. Completed with sumi ink, micron pen, colored pencil, and white ink.
Photo shows an original ACEO card surrounded by the media used to create it. The card depicts a unicorn with a horn of gold and a mane of cropped black hair. A small freckle is below their eye, and a black heart of fur embellishes their chest. Above their head is a glowing white crown of three points. Created on illustration board with sumi ink, pen, colored pencil, metallic gold watercolor, and some white ink.
Image shows an original ACEO surrounded by the materials used to create it. The artwork depicts a somewhat abstract chimera-like figure, its left hand protecting a golden sphere. There are five stars and a golden key in the background, the key's hilt decorated with three circles. The work is done on illustration board with sumi ink, colored pencil, pen, metallic watercolor, and some white ink.
Photo of a small original artwork depicting an animal figure - similar to a fox or cat - with antlers, clothed in a white and gold linen dress and dark cloak, holding a hooked staff carrying a lantern of blue flame. Above the figure's head is a golden crescent moon, and at their throat is a six-pointed star. ACEO measures roughly 2.5x3.5 inches. Created on illustration board with sumi ink, pen, colored pencil, and metallic watercolor.
Photo shows a piece of original artwork depicting an animal-like spirit figure kneeling in soft grass, their shadowy left hand raised in an almost beckoning motion. Two wisps of flame hang in the air near the figure. Created on illustration board with sumi ink and pen.
Photo shows five original art cards depicting various fantastical creatures made with sumi ink, black color pencil, micron pen, and metallic watercolor.
Artwork depicts a magical girl against the backdrop of a silver crescent moon and sage green sky. Her top half is female while her bottom half is animal, her legs and tale resembling that from a white and gold fox. She humbly bows her head while gently embracing a gold wand topped with an 8-pointed star. Her robe is dusky pink and overlaid with a violet and gold cape. Created on tea stained illustration board with acrylic, ink, and color pencil.
Photo shows two art cards on cardboard, one in progress and the other complete. Cards depict an animal-like spirit figure with a masked face, created with sumi ink, black color pencil, and some metallic gold watercolor.
Artwork depicts a male and female figure lovingly meeting each other on a garden bridge under the crescent moon. The fox woman wears a white mask and luscious kimono of burgundy and gold with plum blossom flowers, the obi ultramarine blue and patterned with scales. The male figure wears a black fox mask, red kimono, and black jacket. Inspired by the kitsune of Japanese folklore. Created on tea stained illustration board with acrylic, color pencil, and gel pen.
Artwork depicts an anthropomorphic white rabbit descending from a sage green and golden sky carrying the crescent moon in her hair. She holds a mirror in her left hand. Wisps of gold fires surround her as steps down towards the earth, a coil of incense smoke moving vertically towards the sky from where she came. Mixed media on tea stained illustration board.
Digital sketch of a dark haired wizard holding a chubby cat with a smug expression.