Jaguar Cub — Gallery Canvas Sold This painting argues the opposite

This painting argues the opposite case: the chipmunk belongs here because you can see the exact forest floor it lives in

and Glen knew this subject deeply from decades of summers on Ontario lakes

executed in mixed watercolour and graphite against a soft wash of cliff and water

the flowers appearing between them at different heights

The title is deliberately ambiguous — whose close call

Jaguar Cub — Gallery Canvas Sold This painting argues the oppositeA jaguar cub in the rainforest canopy draped over a branch, watching the viewer from between hanging vines and broad tropical leaves still wet with rain. The rosette patterning of the cub's coat is rendered with absolute precision: the black rings, the tawny centres, the white chest visible below. A woolly caterpillar on the branch beside the cub adds the note of scale that makes the painting work compositionally. Glen painted big cat cubs with a