Goldfinches on Thistle — Giclée on Paper sea the sky and ground barely

the sky and ground barely differentiated in the white-out quality of a true northern storm

and Glen gave it the full attention it deserves — treating it with the same seriousness he brought to his large mammal paintings

looking directly outward

A male and female Cardinal on a bare rosehip bush in late autumn — the dried berries dark and clustered

A whitetail buck stands alert in a clearing of yellow birches and crimson maples while

Goldfinches on Thistle — Giclée on Paper sea the sky and ground barelyThree goldfinches work through a thistle patch a male feeding on a spent seedhead at left, a second male perched on the right, a female arriving from above with wings still open. The thistle is rendered with the botanical precision Glen brought to all his plant subjects: the spiny bracts, the purple bloom, the white plumed seeds drifting into the composition from the milkweed at left. This 1988 watercolour is more complex than the earlier single bird