Barn Swallows — Gallery Canvas Mammals the squirrel on a branch

the squirrel on a branch just across

water exploding from both sides

and Glen found it with the coloured pencil medium that allows for the slow

A nanny Mountain Goat watches over three kids on a high rocky summit — the Cascade Mountains visible for hundreds of kilometres behind them

Barn Swallows — Gallery Canvas Mammals the squirrel on a branchThree barn swallows are caught mid hunt against a soft summer sky, mayflies rising on the breeze. Painting birds in flight is one of the hardest things in wildlife art most attempts feel either frozen or false. Glen solved it with watercolour, spending whole afternoons watching the swallows that nested near his Maple, Ontario studio, sketching the same wing positions over and over until the geometry of the dive became second nature. That patience