Grizzly Bear — Gallery Canvas Print Size:16" x 12.5" the intricate white facial pattern

the intricate white facial pattern

The rendering is exact: the grackle's iridescent plumage is suggested even in graphite through the careful modulation of tone

while the composition carries a raw kinetic charge that static wildlife art rarely achieves

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose work spans five decades of international collection

the whole composition built from the interplay of white bark

Grizzly Bear — Gallery Canvas Print Size:16" x 12.5" the intricate white facial patternA Grizzly Bear on a rocky riverbank mouth open, moving directly toward the viewer, the enormous weight of the animal expressed in every brushstroke. This painting does not soften the grizzly: it is big, it is loud, and it is coming. The hump, the dished face, the dark fur at the legs and paws against the lighter shoulder all of it is anatomically exact and compositionally fearless. Glen painted the grizzly with the same discipline he brought to his