Purple Heron — Gallery Canvas Print Size:12.5" x 16" the petals' translucency suggested through

the petals' translucency suggested through layered coloured pencil without losing their weight

He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose watercolour wildlife studies set the standard for the form in Canada

A summer sky above Drag Lake — enormous cumulus clouds billow and flatten against a clear blue above the Ontario Shield

and Glen painted the bird with the awareness of someone who had heard it as well as observed it

Purple Heron — Gallery Canvas Print Size:12.5" x 16" the petals' translucency suggested throughA Purple Heron stalks the shallows the body folded forward in the hunting crouch, neck extended, the slate blue and russet plumage vivid against the pale grasses of the reed margin. This is not a North American subject: the Purple Heron is a European and African species, and this painting shows Glen working from observation beyond his home territory. The anatomy is exact the distinctive thin neck, the streaked rufous of the head and neck, the blue