Chipmunk and Woodland Blue Butterfly Enhanced — Framed Piece Oil This is not a decorative

This is not a decorative image

but finding that same bird in green requires subtler chromatic judgment

the texture of the paper showing through every stroke

combining the close observation of plant anatomy with the atmospheric quality of a landscape

Chipmunk and Woodland Blue Butterfly Enhanced — Framed Piece Oil This is not a decorativeA chipmunk pauses on a moss covered log, watching a Woodland Blue Butterfly drift past. The original watercolour study, executed by Glen in his characteristic patient field style, has here been transformed: Glen returned to the work years later with soft pastel, Chinese white ink, and coloured pencil applying a luminous green and gold background that lifts the figure off the page, and refining the smallest details until every whisker, fern frond, and