Red Squirrel and Pileated Woodpecker — Framed Piece Sold from floatplanes

from floatplanes

the birds' yellow tail-tips and crimson wing markings catching the light

A summer sky above Drag Lake — enormous cumulus clouds billow and flatten against a clear blue above the Ontario Shield

a pine branch arches overhead

this raccoon family watercolour is one of his most ambitious and warmly received small mammal compositions

Red Squirrel and Pileated Woodpecker — Framed Piece Sold from floatplanesA Red Squirrel faces off against a Pileated Woodpecker on the trunk of a dead pine the woodpecker emerging from its excavation, the squirrel on a branch just across, both alert and assessing. This is a territorial encounter in progress: the Pileated, excavating for carpenter ants, and the Red Squirrel, investigating the noise, have come face to face. The composition is spare and tense, the background dissolved to a soft blue. Glen observed and