Cottontail Rabbit — Gallery Canvas Colored Pencil The skunk's confidence is part

The skunk's confidence is part of the painting's character: this is an animal that knows no predator will approach it

the rippled surface above and the underwater landscape below

each one differently positioned

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

Fox kits at the den were a subject Glen returned to across his career — few wildlife subjects combine the visual appeal of the young with the drama of the predator-in-training quite as effectively

Cottontail Rabbit — Gallery Canvas Colored Pencil The skunk's confidence is partA mother Eastern Cottontail with three kits at her side the young clustered together in a grass nest, the mother alert above them. The family is painted with the warm intimacy Glen brought to his mammal subjects: the kits' proportions exactly right, the mother's posture exactly that mix of attention and calm that nursing females carry. The summer grasses around them fade softly into the background. Glen spent time observing cottontail warrens in the