Barn Swallows — Framed Piece autopostr_pinterest_76101 the antenna

the antenna

and coloured pencil — applying a luminous green-and-gold background that lifts the figure off the page

This European species sits outside Glen's Canadian core subjects

Eastern Bluebirds — the male's deep cerulean blue and warm russet breast among the most vivid plumage combinations in Ontario's bird life — rendered with the precision Glen brought to all his bird subjects

its flower shape and colour adapted to exactly these birds

Barn Swallows — Framed Piece autopostr_pinterest_76101 the antennaThree barn swallows are caught mid hunt against a soft summer sky, mayflies rising on the breeze. Painting birds in flight is one of the hardest things in wildlife art most attempts feel either frozen or false. Glen solved it with watercolour, spending whole afternoons watching the swallows that nested near his Maple, Ontario studio, sketching the same wing positions over and over until the geometry of the dive became second nature. That patience