Cottontail Bunny with Violet — Framed Piece Horizontal the large scales catching light

the large scales catching light as the fish turns

looking directly outward

near his feet

The coloured pencil rendering gives the kitten's spotted coat a warmth and softness that suits the subject perfectly

the leaf litter an entire terrain

Cottontail Bunny with Violet — Framed Piece Horizontal the large scales catching lightA newborn cottontail barely larger than a fist, eyes open to a world it has just discovered sits among purple violets, its ears alert, its spotted baby coat still visible. This is as tender as wildlife art gets: the animal so young and so precisely rendered that the viewer instinctively lowers their voice. The violets surrounding it are botanically accurate, each petal placed where a violet petal would actually be. Glen's small mammal studies of young