Blue Jays — Gallery Canvas ducks the way the brown plumage

the way the brown plumage catches and absorbs light differently from a smaller hawk

and this study shows why

the whole painting a study in the specific whites of different natural surfaces

Glen's waterfowl studies extended beyond the common species to the more seldom-seen

Mosquitoes — the ones that made the Canadian wilderness summer what it is

Blue Jays — Gallery Canvas ducks the way the brown plumageTwo blue jays hold their ground in an oak tree as the first snow of autumn dusts the remaining leaves. The composition captures a specific Canadian moment that brief overlap when the last of the fall colour and the first winter snow exist together. Glen rendered the jays' electric blue against the tawny copper of the oak leaves with the kind of chromatic confidence that only comes from painting the same birds, in the same season, year after year. Blue