Chipmunk on Forest Floor — Gallery Canvas Wildlife Each page highlights the unique

Each page highlights the unique characteristics and behaviors of these captivating creatures

He let the season assert itself

The open country behind the bird — fence line

the chipmunk's striped coat rendered with the fine-brush control that made his small mammal studies exceptional

This 1993 watercolour catches the heron in the most difficult moment: the transition from stillness to flight

Chipmunk on Forest Floor — Gallery Canvas Wildlife Each page highlights the uniqueA chipmunk navigates its way through a tangle of dried grasses, fallen maple leaves, and bare branches the whole composition a study in the texture of a Canadian forest floor in late autumn. Glen gives us the chipmunk's world at chipmunk scale: the branches overhead are significant obstacles, the leaf litter an entire terrain. The blue bittersweet berries just out of reach above add the only colour note to an otherwise amber and brown palette. This