Mount Rundle and Vermilion Lake Banff — Gallery Canvas water The violets surrounding it are

The violets surrounding it are botanically accurate

the brown-and-white streaked plumage rendered with the fine-brush patience that this tiny bird demands

This is one of the showiest of Ontario's native shrubs

the bird completely still in the specific stillness of an incubating bird

Mallard ducklings — a cluster of them

Mount Rundle and Vermilion Lake Banff — Gallery Canvas water The violets surrounding it areMount Rundle rises above Vermilion Lake in this 1992 coloured pencil landscape the great tilted limestone slab of the mountain's east face filling the upper half of the canvas, the lake surface reflecting the sky below a fringe of dark spruce. This is one of the most recognizable views in Canada, and Glen rendered it in the blue violet palette of a Rockies morning before the light has fully warmed. Glen worked in coloured pencil rather than