Bluebirds In Nest — Giclée on Paper Print Size:8" x 8" including the red eye catching

including the red eye catching the light

his loon paintings are among his most widely held works in Canadian collections

Glen rendered the intricate patterning with the same fine-brush patience he brought to his larger owl portraits

Hardcover with dust jacket

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose bird watercolours have been collected internationally for over five decades

Bluebirds In Nest — Giclée on Paper Print Size:8" x 8" including the red eye catchingA male Eastern Bluebird perches at the entrance of a hollow fence post, his female just inside her eye visible in the shadow of the cavity, the nest below her. This is one of Glen's earliest and most intimate bird studies, painted in 1965 when he was already demonstrating the close observational eye that would define his career. The weathered wood of the post is rendered with the same attention he gave to the birds themselves every grain, split, and