Grackles — Giclée on Paper Insects and Butterflies luminous watercolour washes for the

luminous watercolour washes for the atmospheric background and tighter

The open country behind the bird — fence line

not a generic tree

Glen made this watercolour at the height of his powers

Grackles — Giclée on Paper Insects and Butterflies luminous watercolour washes for theTwo 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