Raccoon Baby — Framed Piece Tote Bag the way the needles group

the way the needles group and light passes through them: all of it observed and placed with care

This is a coloured pencil composition of unusual warmth: the autumn palette of the forest — orange and gold leaves

with its layered ridges receding into the haze

the branch division pattern

Glen's group compositions demonstrate the additional challenge of painting multiple animals convincingly — each raccoon has its own posture

Raccoon Baby — Framed Piece Tote Bag the way the needles groupA 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