I snagged a slot from
aardpuff again recently, and I figured that her style would work well with the Bellwoods sisters. So here we have the three of them sitting for a family photo... well, Ally's kind of wishing she were elsewhere, Lucy's making the photographer wish he were elsewhere, and Sylvie is just wishing everybody would settle back down so they could get it over with, while knowing that's probably not happening quickly...
aardpuff again recently, and I figured that her style would work well with the Bellwoods sisters. So here we have the three of them sitting for a family photo... well, Ally's kind of wishing she were elsewhere, Lucy's making the photographer wish he were elsewhere, and Sylvie is just wishing everybody would settle back down so they could get it over with, while knowing that's probably not happening quickly...
Category Artwork (Digital) / Portraits
Species Squirrel
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"I met her only in greyscale,
And her sister in monochrome,
The third felt entirely at home,
With adventide heterochromia..."
And yes, I am familiar with IRL heterochromia, different colours for the right and left eye each, most often inherited from a mammal's mother. In this case, I enjoyed having some word-silliness about the trio of snow and coal-furred Bellwoods sisters, and their IRL fourlegged inspirational conpirators who've made Trinity-Bellwoods Park that more colourful a place genetically. <3
-2Paw.
And her sister in monochrome,
The third felt entirely at home,
With adventide heterochromia..."
And yes, I am familiar with IRL heterochromia, different colours for the right and left eye each, most often inherited from a mammal's mother. In this case, I enjoyed having some word-silliness about the trio of snow and coal-furred Bellwoods sisters, and their IRL fourlegged inspirational conpirators who've made Trinity-Bellwoods Park that more colourful a place genetically. <3
-2Paw.
There's also 'central' heterochromia, where the centre of the iris around the pupil is a different colour than the outer ring. That tends to be rather less noticeable on a casual glance, though.
Part of the reason for having both Ally and Lucy was reading an old article that said we knew there was more than one white squirrel because some of the pictures showed different eye colours.
Part of the reason for having both Ally and Lucy was reading an old article that said we knew there was more than one white squirrel because some of the pictures showed different eye colours.
I remember that mentioned in one of our local Toronto papers; the advent of the Bellwoods Vanilla Squirrel(s) in resident fame is relatively recent, but the reports of a white-furred squirrel- or more than one- at Trinity-Bellwoods goes back a ways, as I recall. And some had blue or lighter, cool-coloured eyes like a white tiger or tigress, not themselves albinos but a different genera of genetic fluke.
-2Paw.
-2Paw.
Yes, the term for that is Leucism. The 'Spirit Bears' in B.C. (black bears with white fur) have that particular quirk. And that's why I named that squirrel Lucy, just like the albino one is Ally: because I was being somewhat unimaginative at the time.
I'm going to keep that Wikipedia page handy as I continue to write Tagger; Yasmenn, my/Jospeh's 'little sister' weretigress has a particular genetic quirk to how her orange coat is present, or not present, on different parts of her body when she's in her tigress-person or fourlegger tigress form. I feel sure I showed you the drawing I drew of Yasmenn in the last week or two on Discord, as I drew it a little more than two Wednesdays ago, and the arrangement of orange fur on her face and head is deliberate.
I am very sure I've heard about the white-furred, black bear 'Spirit Bears' in British Columbia, and along with mentioning Lucy's particular genetic expression novelty I strongly suspect you were the person who shared with me originally the genetic concept of Leucism and the Wikipedia article above, Jenora.
-2Paw.
I am very sure I've heard about the white-furred, black bear 'Spirit Bears' in British Columbia, and along with mentioning Lucy's particular genetic expression novelty I strongly suspect you were the person who shared with me originally the genetic concept of Leucism and the Wikipedia article above, Jenora.
-2Paw.
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