Jaguar Cub — Gallery Canvas Sold This painting argues the opposite

This painting argues the opposite case: the chipmunk belongs here because you can see the exact forest floor it lives in

Glen understood that the power of a winter bird painting comes from the cold

its white petals as precisely rendered as the fawn's spots

executed in mixed watercolour and graphite against a soft wash of cliff and water

the flowers appearing between them at different heights

Jaguar Cub — Gallery Canvas Sold This painting argues the oppositeA jaguar cub in the rainforest canopy draped over a branch, watching the viewer from between hanging vines and broad tropical leaves still wet with rain. The rosette patterning of the cub's coat is rendered with absolute precision: the black rings, the tawny centres, the white chest visible below. A woolly caterpillar on the branch beside the cub adds the note of scale that makes the painting work compositionally. Glen painted big cat cubs with a