Goldfinch — Framed Piece NEW Glen met the challenge with

Glen met the challenge with his characteristic thoroughness

They demonstrate the same observational discipline applied to a subject that most wildlife painters overlook

A Saw-whet Owl in close portrait — one of the smallest owls in North America

Bobbie KalmanAuthors: Bobbie Kalman

With 57 pages of stunning

Goldfinch — Framed Piece NEW Glen met the challenge withA male American Goldfinch at peak summer plumage launches from a thistle wings spread, the electric yellow of the breeding male almost incandescent against the soft blue green atmospheric background. Thistle seeds drift in the air around it; a companion flower opens at centre. This 1970 watercolour is one of Glen's most chromatically confident pieces: that particular cadmium yellow green of the male in June is one of the hardest colours to render