Black-Capped Chickadees — Gallery Canvas Colored Pencil is itself a major achievement

is itself a major achievement in the painting

loose and atmospheric in the surrounding vegetation — exactly the kind of contrast that made his wildlife work feel alive rather than illustrated

A pair of Hooded Mergansers on rippled water — the male in foreground with his extraordinary black-and-white crest fully raised

The cheetah's spotted coat and distinctive black facial tear-marks are rendered with precision

adapted for low-light hunting

Black-Capped Chickadees — Gallery Canvas Colored Pencil is itself a major achievementFour black capped chickadees on a winter morning one perched high, two foraging in the snow, one caught mid flutter with wings spread. The composition is deceptively simple: white on white, a few snow laden branches, and four small birds going about the business of surviving a Canadian winter. What makes it extraordinary is the light Glen caught the way late winter sun turns snow almost yellow, and how chickadee plumage holds its crispness even when