Meadow Lark — Framed Piece Artwork The result is a portrait

The result is a portrait of absolute presence

his spring forest compositions

the feeder he filled

The pastel background wash lifts the beaver off the page while keeping the mood quiet and unhurried

and the particular light of a threatening afternoon in August

Meadow Lark — Framed Piece Artwork The result is a portraitA Western Meadowlark the vivid yellow breast with its black chevron catching the morning light, the bird perched on a fence post with the prairie stretching behind it. Glen brought the same anatomical precision to the Meadowlark as to his Ontario birds, the specific arrangement of the breast streaking and the yellow below rendered without shortcut. The open country behind the bird fence line, grasses, distant sky places it exactly where this bird