Season's Greetings — Gallery Canvas Watercolor the dark fur at the

the dark fur at the legs and paws against the lighter shoulder — all of it is anatomically exact and compositionally fearless

and Glen treated it with the respect the subject deserves

the weight shifted slightly onto the haunches in preparation for flight that may or may not come

Glen painted this early in his career

the disproportionate paws evolved for exactly this terrain — all of it is anatomically precise and emotionally alive

Season's Greetings — Gallery Canvas Watercolor the dark fur at theThere is a story behind this painting that no other gallery can tell. When Michael Loates was ten years old, he and his father Glen built a snowman together in the yard. While Glen was outside painting the finished snowman, a gust of wind caught one of the mitts and blew it off landing in the snow a short distance away. Glen found this genuinely funny. Rather than fix it, he left it exactly where it fell, and painted the scene just as it was: the