Calgary Foothills — Giclée on Paper Original and how chickadee plumage holds

and how chickadee plumage holds its crispness even when everything around them is soft

This is one of Glen's finest freshwater predator-prey studies: both animals rendered with the same careful attention

The male's red is muted slightly by the cool light

The watercolour is technically flawless — the wet-on-wet passages in the snow

Calgary Foothills — Giclée on Paper Original and how chickadee plumage holdsThe Rocky Mountains rise behind a wide open Alberta foothills sky bare poplars in the foreground, a farmstead just visible in the middle distance, and in the far distance the permanent white of snow capped peaks under a vault of luminous cloud. This is the scale of the Canadian west rendered in coloured pencil, a medium that gives the piece its characteristic warmth the purple blue of the distant hills, the pale gold of winter grass. Glen made