Goldfinches on Thistle — Giclée on Paper sea Glen solved it with watercolour

Glen solved it with watercolour

the sky and ground barely differentiated in the white-out quality of a true northern storm

A male and female Cardinal on a bare rosehip bush in late autumn — the dried berries dark and clustered

and bare branches — the whole composition a study in the texture of a Canadian forest floor in late autumn

Goldfinches on Thistle — Giclée on Paper sea Glen solved it with watercolourThree goldfinches work through a thistle patch a male feeding on a spent seedhead at left, a second male perched on the right, a female arriving from above with wings still open. The thistle is rendered with the botanical precision Glen brought to all his plant subjects: the spiny bracts, the purple bloom, the white plumed seeds drifting into the composition from the milkweed at left. This 1988 watercolour is more complex than the earlier single bird