Raccoon Baby — Bag Insects and Butterflies the way the animal uses

the way the animal uses its front paws like hands

summer undergrowth — is painted with the same botanical attention Glen applied to his wildlife subjects

This is a territorial encounter in progress: the Pileated

just applied to an unfamiliar species

Raccoon Baby — Bag Insects and Butterflies the way the animal usesA young raccoon sits at a pond's edge among pickerelweed the juvenile plumage still fluffy, the mask already distinct, the animal regarding the viewer with the alert curiosity of a young mammal encountering something new. A leopard frog sits at the lower right, barely visible but precisely rendered. The pickerelweed behind the kit is botanically exact another wetland species given its due. This painting brings together two classic Ontario pond species