Drag Lake Cloud Study — Framed Piece Vertical The Saw-whet's expression — wide-eyed

The Saw-whet's expression — wide-eyed

the bird perched on a fence post with the prairie stretching behind it

Painting birds in flight is one of the hardest things in wildlife art — most attempts feel either frozen or false

The graphite study is from 1985

Drag Lake Cloud Study — Framed Piece Vertical The Saw-whet's expression — wide-eyedA summer sky above Drag Lake enormous cumulus clouds billow and flatten against a clear blue above the Ontario Shield, the distant forested hills just visible at the bottom edge of the composition. This is Glen as cloud painter: the sky is the entire subject, the land merely the horizon line that gives the clouds their scale. Glen made extended field trips to Drag Lake in Haliburton, Ontario across his career, and the sky studies produced there