Western Capercaillie — Giclée on Paper Canada The skunk's confidence is part

The skunk's confidence is part of the painting's character: this is an animal that knows no predator will approach it

This is one of Glen's more complex multi-bird compositions

patches of snow visible through the distant tree canopy

neck craning forward over a stand of autumn cattails

This is Glen as cloud painter: the sky is the entire subject

Western Capercaillie — Giclée on Paper Canada The skunk's confidence is partA Western Capercaillie the largest of the grouse family, a bird of the old Scots and Scandinavian pine forests painted with the same anatomical precision Glen brought to all his bird subjects. The Capercaillie's extraordinary plumage, with its iridescent green breast, fan tail, and red wattles, is a complex rendering challenge, and Glen met it with the disciplined colour mixing his watercolour technique permitted. This European species sits outside