Blue Jays — Framed Piece Frame:White surrounded by fireweed and aspen

surrounded by fireweed and aspen leaves

There is nowhere to look except directly back at the animal

Glen's wolf pup study

The Spotted Owl's large dark eyes

1987ISBN: 0865051860

Blue Jays — Framed Piece Frame:White surrounded by fireweed and aspenTwo blue jays hold their ground in an oak tree as the first snow of autumn dusts the remaining leaves. The composition captures a specific Canadian moment that brief overlap when the last of the fall colour and the first winter snow exist together. Glen rendered the jays' electric blue against the tawny copper of the oak leaves with the kind of chromatic confidence that only comes from painting the same birds, in the same season, year after year. Blue