Raccoon Baby — Giclée on Paper Watercolor and the Sonoran Desert flora

and the Sonoran Desert flora are rendered with the same observational precision he brought to his Canadian subjects

Glen's botanical studies demanded the same field discipline as his wildlife work — close observation

and Glen's painting honours that quality

is a complex rendering challenge

The Sulphur's wing venation

Raccoon Baby — Giclée on Paper Watercolor and the Sonoran Desert floraA young raccoon sits at a pond's edge among pickerelweed the juvenile plumage still fluffy, the mask already distinct, the animal regarding the viewer with the alert curiosity of a young mammal encountering something new. A leopard frog sits at the lower right, barely visible but precisely rendered. The pickerelweed behind the kit is botanically exact another wetland species given its due. This painting brings together two classic Ontario pond species