Chipmunk on Forest Floor — Framed Piece Artwork The Saw-whet's plumage is among

The Saw-whet's plumage is among the most complex in small owl taxonomy: the streaking pattern on the breast

the bird perched on a fence post with the prairie stretching behind it

A gravel road crests a hill and drops into a summer Ontario valley — a grey barn visible at the farm below

for a ten-year-old boy who helped build the subject

Chipmunk on Forest Floor — Framed Piece Artwork The Saw-whet's plumage is amongA chipmunk navigates its way through a tangle of dried grasses, fallen maple leaves, and bare branches the whole composition a study in the texture of a Canadian forest floor in late autumn. Glen gives us the chipmunk's world at chipmunk scale: the branches overhead are significant obstacles, the leaf litter an entire terrain. The blue bittersweet berries just out of reach above add the only colour note to an otherwise amber and brown palette. This