Snowy Owl Portrait — Gallery Canvas Square a cottontail rabbit sitting perfectly

a cottontail rabbit sitting perfectly still

and Glen painted it with the authority of someone who had

The iridescent green and purple of the head

the dark centres anchoring each bloom

the columnar stamen

Snowy Owl Portrait — Gallery Canvas Square a cottontail rabbit sitting perfectlyA Snowy Owl portrait the bird filling the frame, turned three quarters, the yellow eyes compelling and direct. The white plumage is rendered with the fine brush discipline that Glen brought to all his owl portraits: every feather an individual mark, the subtle barring that indicates a female bird rendered without overstating it, the facial disc and bill precisely placed. This is the Snowy Owl as a presence rather than as a landscape element. Where the