Tiger Portrait — Gallery Canvas Canada the way a storm reduces

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one regarding the viewer with the sidelong composure of a bird that knows exactly what it is doing

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Tiger Portrait — Gallery Canvas Canada the way a storm reducesA tiger in close portrait the face filling most of the canvas, rendered in coloured pencil on a warm toned ground. This 1984 study is one of Glen's finest big cat portraits: the tiger's facial anatomy the asymmetric stripe pattern, the pale inner face, the amber eyes, the whisker arrangement rendered with complete precision, the toned paper ground giving the whole image the warmth of natural light. The result is a portrait of absolute presence. Glen's