Swan Family — Gallery Canvas NEW Glen built this scene the

Glen built this scene the way the deer themselves would experience it — every leaf

the body not yet airborne

but what makes the painting extraordinary is the water

the same careful study from specimens and field observation

Swan Family — Gallery Canvas NEW Glen built this scene theA Trumpeter Swan family on a northern lake the white adults and their grey cygnets moving across still water, the reflections perfect in the calm. This is one of Glen's most serene compositions: the swans' white completely luminous against the blue of the water, the cygnets' grey a perfect tonal bridge between the white adults and the dark water. The landscape behind is barely indicated treeline, sky, reflection everything secondary to the family on