Black-Capped Chickadees — Gallery Canvas Colored Pencil is itself a major achievement

is itself a major achievement in the painting

the leaves touched by the first turn of autumn

The cheetah's spotted coat and distinctive black facial tear-marks are rendered with precision

adapted for low-light hunting

the texture inherent in the medium

Black-Capped Chickadees — Gallery Canvas Colored Pencil is itself a major achievementFour black capped chickadees on a winter morning one perched high, two foraging in the snow, one caught mid flutter with wings spread. The composition is deceptively simple: white on white, a few snow laden branches, and four small birds going about the business of surviving a Canadian winter. What makes it extraordinary is the light Glen caught the way late winter sun turns snow almost yellow, and how chickadee plumage holds its crispness even when