Indigo Buntings — Giclée on Paper Cat The Glen Loates North American

The Glen Loates North American wildlife series

Fringed Polygala in full bloom — the vivid magenta-pink flowers luminous against the deep green of the surrounding forest floor vegetation

A male and female Cardinal in a summer linden — the male's red luminous against the fresh green foliage

Chinese white ink

Glen believed the background was as important as the subject — that an animal pulled from its habitat and placed against a neutral wash was always slightly false

Indigo Buntings — Giclée on Paper Cat The Glen Loates North AmericanA 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