Stalking Lynx — Gallery Canvas Print Size:20" x 30" Most of Glen's finished watercolours

Most of Glen's finished watercolours were preceded by dozens of preparatory studies — sketches of wing positions

each petal placed where a violet petal would actually be

The male's red is muted slightly by the cool light

the leaves turning

and this painting carries the warmth of a familiar subject

Stalking Lynx — Gallery Canvas Print Size:20" x 30" Most of Glen's finished watercoloursA Canada Lynx advances directly toward the viewer head low, eyes fixed, enormous snowshoe paws lifting and placing with the deliberate silence of a cat that has been hunting this way its entire life. The coloured pencil rendering gives the lynx's winter coat extraordinary depth: the grey ticked fur, the black ear tufts, the pale facial ruff, all built up in layered pencil marks that suggest both the animal's mass and the softness of its dense winter