Bluebirds In Nest — Giclée on Paper Print Size:8" x 8" Glen Loates is a member

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

his loon paintings are among his most widely held works in Canadian collections

requires complete confidence in the handling of the watercolour

Most landscape paintings show you autumn from across a field

but the same methodology applies: careful specimen study

Bluebirds In Nest — Giclée on Paper Print Size:8" x 8" Glen Loates is a memberA male Eastern Bluebird perches at the entrance of a hollow fence post, his female just inside her eye visible in the shadow of the cavity, the nest below her. This is one of Glen's earliest and most intimate bird studies, painted in 1965 when he was already demonstrating the close observational eye that would define his career. The weathered wood of the post is rendered with the same attention he gave to the birds themselves every grain, split, and