Chipmunk and Woodland Blue Butterfly Enhanced — Gallery Canvas Birds the female's warm brown-orange blending

the female's warm brown-orange blending more carefully with the surrounding leaves

This coloured-pencil landscape captures the particular quality of Ontario autumn seen from elevation: the sheer volume of colour in every direction

The goldfinch was one of Glen's most frequently observed feeder and garden birds

Two Common Loons on a Shield lake as a summer storm passes — the sky still dramatic with departing cloud

The reed reflections make vertical lines that organize the painting's quiet surface

Chipmunk and Woodland Blue Butterfly Enhanced — Gallery Canvas Birds the female's warm brown-orange blendingA chipmunk pauses on a moss covered log, watching a Woodland Blue Butterfly drift past. The original watercolour study, executed by Glen in his characteristic patient field style, has here been transformed: Glen returned to the work years later with soft pastel, Chinese white ink, and coloured pencil applying a luminous green and gold background that lifts the figure off the page, and refining the smallest details until every whisker, fern frond, and