Muskellunge — Giclée on Paper Wildlife A Whitetail Fawn in close

A Whitetail Fawn in close portrait — the spotted coat

and Glen met it with the disciplined colour mixing his watercolour technique permitted

the ways light fell on a bird at different times of day

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose work documenting Canadian wildlife spans five decades of international recognition

his work hangs at the Smithsonian Institution and was personally presented to a sitting U

Muskellunge — Giclée on Paper Wildlife A Whitetail Fawn in closeA Muskellunge lunges through a weed bed in pursuit of a perch the great jaw opening, the vertical bars of the muskie's flank vivid against the green of the water, lily pad stems and submerged weed fronds drifting in the turbulence of the strike. This is one of Glen's finest fish paintings: the composition entirely underwater, the quality of light through shallow, weedy Ontario water exactly right, the muskie's anatomy rendered with the precision of an