Raccoon Baby — Bag Insects and Butterflies the branches woven through the

the branches woven through the image at different planes

summer undergrowth — is painted with the same botanical attention Glen applied to his wildlife subjects

the proboscis

the whisker arrangement — rendered with complete precision

Glen's field notes at the lower left record the specimen: Alces alces andersoni

Raccoon Baby — Bag Insects and Butterflies the branches woven through theA young raccoon sits at a pond's edge among pickerelweed the juvenile plumage still fluffy, the mask already distinct, the animal regarding the viewer with the alert curiosity of a young mammal encountering something new. A leopard frog sits at the lower right, barely visible but precisely rendered. The pickerelweed behind the kit is botanically exact another wetland species given its due. This painting brings together two classic Ontario pond species