Indigo Buntings — Gallery Canvas Print Size:22" x 24" and designed by Michael

and designed by Michael

This 1987 watercolour is the image most people picture when they think of Glen Loates — the red of the male against winter snow

He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and the artist behind Canada's first full-colour postage stamp

Loates has brilliantly employed soft pastels to infuse atmospheric colours into the background

The male's head is rendered in full colour detail at top

Indigo Buntings — Gallery Canvas Print Size:22" x 24" and designed by MichaelA male Indigo Bunting that impossible saturated blue perches below a female on a wild grape vine, the deep blue berries clustering around them, the vine's foliage caught at the turn between summer and early autumn. The male's plumage is rendered with the chromatic discipline this subject demands: Indigo Buntings are not blue in the pigment sense but in the structural sense, and the colour shifts as the angle shifts. Glen caught it in the mid turn