Cooper's Hawk — Giclée on Paper Colored Pencil demanding one

demanding one

Glen painted the grizzly with the same discipline he brought to his quieter subjects — years of study from specimens and field observation

and Glen found it

each doing something specific and true to raccoon behaviour

and Glen gave the subject the treatment it deserves — the maple canopy rendered in the fresh spring green that best sets off the scarlet plumage

Cooper's Hawk — Giclée on Paper Colored Pencil demanding oneA Cooper's Hawk perches on a dead oak branch, hunched forward, red eye blazing, the rufous barred breast pressed against the bark. This 1982 watercolour is an exercise in raptor authority the hawk owns the branch, the autumn leaves behind it are secondary, the viewer is assessed and found uninteresting. Glen captured the species' characteristic intensity: these are birds that are always watching. Glen spent years observing raptors both from field