Grackles — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:White dramatic takeoffs

dramatic takeoffs

each colour zone placed exactly where it falls on the actual bird

the large dark eye completely trusting

has here been transformed: Glen returned to the work years later with soft pastel

The grey-blue mountain rock

Grackles — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:White dramatic takeoffsTwo Common Grackles in a tropical tree one high on a branch singing, long tail fanned, the other hanging below among the broad leaves. The graphite study is from 1985, and the setting plumeria flowers at left, large tropical foliage suggests an observation made on one of Glen's working trips outside Canada. The rendering is exact: the grackle's iridescent plumage is suggested even in graphite through the careful modulation of tone. Drawing was the