Western Capercaillie — Framed Piece not-on-sale sketching the same wing positions

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

The simplicity is deliberate — Glen stripped away everything except the animal and the few autumn elements that define its world

he left it exactly where it fell

rooted in years of anatomical study at the Royal Ontario Museum

all three orientated in slightly different directions with the alert

Western Capercaillie — Framed Piece not-on-sale sketching the same wing positionsA Western Capercaillie the largest of the grouse family, a bird of the old Scots and Scandinavian pine forests painted with the same anatomical precision Glen brought to all his bird subjects. The Capercaillie's extraordinary plumage, with its iridescent green breast, fan tail, and red wattles, is a complex rendering challenge, and Glen met it with the disciplined colour mixing his watercolour technique permitted. This European species sits outside