Monarch Butterflies — Gallery Canvas Birds watching a Woodland Blue Butterfly

watching a Woodland Blue Butterfly drift past

the facial disc markings all require meticulous attention to render correctly

Three red fox kits at the den entrance — one standing alert on a pine-cone-strewn slope

The loon is Canada's most iconic bird

the labellum orange-yellow at centre

Monarch Butterflies — Gallery Canvas Birds watching a Woodland Blue ButterflyTwo Monarch Butterflies on a milkweed plant the larger one with wings fully open showing the iconic orange and black patterning, the smaller one at rest beside it, wings vertical. The milkweed leaves are rendered with the same care Glen brought to all his botanical subjects: the large waxy leaves, the specific venation, the slightly glaucous surface. The composition is clean and spare white background, plant, butterflies which gives the orange of the