Canada Lynx — Bag ducks 86 in full-colour Plates (illustrator)

86 in full-colour Plates (illustrator)

the birds he woke up to

the same botanical attention to the plant life surrounding the animal

This is not a pretty winter scene: it is a painting about the severity of the season

Glen gives us the chipmunk's world at chipmunk scale: the branches overhead are significant obstacles

Canada Lynx — Bag ducks 86 in full-colour Plates (illustrator)A Canada Lynx turns mid stride in deep snow, yellow eyes catching the viewer, the enormous snowshoe paws sinking only slightly into the drifted surface. This 1983 watercolour is one of Glen's most celebrated winter mammal paintings the lynx's silver grey coat painted with the kind of botanical patience he usually reserved for feather studies, every hair of the dense winter fur placed with intention. Glen observed lynx during winter fieldwork in