Wood Ducks — Gallery Canvas Enhanced sketching the same wing positions

sketching the same wing positions over and over until the geometry of the dive became second nature

one grey — tracking through deep winter snow

looking through maples and birches to the lake surface beyond

his female just inside — her eye visible in the shadow of the cavity

the kill at its feet

Wood Ducks — Gallery Canvas Enhanced sketching the same wing positionsWood Ducks the male's extraordinary breeding plumage one of the most complex and beautiful of any North American waterfowl rendered with the precision the species demands. The iridescent green and purple of the head, the intricate white facial pattern, the chestnut breast, the golden flanks: all of it is there in Glen's watercolour, each colour zone placed exactly where it falls on the actual bird. The Wood Duck is among the most technically