Indigo Buntings — Gallery Canvas Print Size:22" x 24" the rosette pattern of a

the rosette pattern of a species Glen would have studied both from photographs and from specimens

the snow in shadow is cooler than the snow in light

This 1987 watercolour is the image most people picture when they think of Glen Loates — the red of the male against winter snow

Loates has brilliantly employed soft pastels to infuse atmospheric colours into the background

The male's head is rendered in full colour detail at top

Indigo Buntings — Gallery Canvas Print Size:22" x 24" the rosette pattern of aA male Indigo Bunting that impossible saturated blue perches below a female on a wild grape vine, the deep blue berries clustering around them, the vine's foliage caught at the turn between summer and early autumn. The male's plumage is rendered with the chromatic discipline this subject demands: Indigo Buntings are not blue in the pigment sense but in the structural sense, and the colour shifts as the angle shifts. Glen caught it in the mid turn