Eastern Gray Squirrels — Gallery Canvas Print Size:31.5" x 36" Drawing was always the foundation

Drawing was always the foundation of his practice — long before the watercolours that made him famous

Eastern Bluebirds — the male's deep cerulean blue and warm russet breast among the most vivid plumage combinations in Ontario's bird life — rendered with the precision Glen brought to all his bird subjects

Glen's waterfowl studies extended from the dramatic adult plumage paintings to these quieter early-season studies of young birds

But this piece belongs to a different category

Glen made extended field trips to Drag Lake in Haliburton

Eastern Gray Squirrels — Gallery Canvas Print Size:31.5" x 36" Drawing was always the foundationTwo Eastern Gray Squirrels in a massive autumn oak one grey, one black (the melanistic form common in Ontario), both navigating the great forking branches of a tree that Glen rendered with the same attention he gave the animals. This 1984 watercolour is one of his most architecturally ambitious compositions: the oak's bark and branch structure take up most of the canvas, the remaining autumn leaves carefully placed, the squirrels integrated into the