Calgary Foothills — Gallery Canvas Print Size:10.5" x 14" the long tail: every element

the long tail: every element of the male pheasant's remarkable appearance rendered with the precision Glen brought to all his bird portraits

green — mark the edges of the page where Glen was testing his palette

The dotted plumage is rendered with the fine-brush patience that distinguishes his bird watercolours

where he spent decades watching exactly this kind of traffic at exactly this kind of feeder

The two birds allow a comparison of postures: the hovering bird's wings blurred with motion

Calgary Foothills — Gallery Canvas Print Size:10.5" x 14" the long tail: every elementThe Rocky Mountains rise behind a wide open Alberta foothills sky bare poplars in the foreground, a farmstead just visible in the middle distance, and in the far distance the permanent white of snow capped peaks under a vault of luminous cloud. This is the scale of the Canadian west rendered in coloured pencil, a medium that gives the piece its characteristic warmth the purple blue of the distant hills, the pale gold of winter grass. Glen made