Mallard Ducklings — Framed Piece Print Size:12.5" x 14" Drawing was always the foundation

Drawing was always the foundation of Glen's practice

A Common Loon with two chicks riding on its back — the parent's brilliant summer plumage rendered in full detail

This 1986 watercolour is a study in patient attention: the dove is fully aware of the observer but committed to the nest

the lily pads at lower right all precisely observed

A chipmunk pauses on a moss-covered log as a Woodland Blue Butterfly settles nearby — the original field study that preceded the Enhanced edition

Mallard Ducklings — Framed Piece Print Size:12.5" x 14" Drawing was always the foundationMallard ducklings a cluster of them, still in their natal down, gathered at the water's edge among the reeds. Glen painted ducklings with the same completeness he gave all his young animal subjects: the specific downy texture of newly hatched birds, the proportions not yet resolved into adult form, the expression of complete absorption in the immediate world. The habitat surroundings the reeds, the shallow water, the muddy bank are as specifically