Bald Eagle Montage — Gallery Canvas Canvas Finish:Matte Glen's winter landscapes document the

Glen's winter landscapes document the Canadian season at its most austere and most honest — not the picturesque postcard winter but the long

The title is deliberately ambiguous — whose close call

Glen caught it in the mid-turn position

The painting works because both subject and setting receive equal treatment: the cedar bark is as specifically observed as the fox's fur

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose bird watercolours have been collected internationally for over five decades

Bald Eagle Montage — Gallery Canvas Canvas Finish:Matte Glen's winter landscapes document theMost of Glen's finished watercolours were preceded by dozens of preparatory studies sketches of wing positions, talon studies, head turns, the ways light fell on a bird at different times of day. This piece pulls those threads together into a single composition: the bald eagle in three stances, executed in mixed watercolour and graphite against a soft wash of cliff and water. It is, in essence, an artist's working sketchbook made beautiful. For