Grackles — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:White This 1985 watercolour is deceptively

This 1985 watercolour is deceptively simple: the duck is rendered with complete precision

each colour zone placed exactly where it falls on the actual bird

and this cougar kitten is one of the finest — the luminous blue background wash lifting the animal off the page

old-growth character — is part of the painting's meaning as well as its composition

Grackles — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:White This 1985 watercolour is deceptivelyTwo Common Grackles in a tropical tree one high on a branch singing, long tail fanned, the other hanging below among the broad leaves. The graphite study is from 1985, and the setting plumeria flowers at left, large tropical foliage suggests an observation made on one of Glen's working trips outside Canada. The rendering is exact: the grackle's iridescent plumage is suggested even in graphite through the careful modulation of tone. Drawing was the