Fox in the Badlands: An Oil Painting

An oil painting of a red fox in a rugged badlands landscape. The fox stands on a sun-warmed rocky outcrop, alert and curious, with a vast panorama of eroded hoodoos, red and ochre rock formations, and distant mesas behind. The scene is rendered in thick oil-paint impasto on canvas, with visible brushstrokes and glaze textures. Use a warm earth-tones palette of burnt sienna, raw umber, Naples yellow, and touches of titanium white for highlights. Golden-hour lighting casts long shadows and a crepuscular glow across the badlands. The sky is pale blue with wispy clouds. The overall mood is solitary, rugged, and timeless, reminiscent of classic American western landscape painting but with a contemporary, painterly feel.