Goldfinches on Thistle — Gallery Canvas Watercolor Glen worked from sketches and

Glen worked from sketches and observation done over multiple seasons at active beaver lodges in Ontario

A botanical study combining two forest floor plants — False Solomon's Seal with its arching stem and paired leaves

The Tarpon is one of the most sought-after game fish in the world

a second clover stem curving below

where he spent weeks at a time observing the land before committing it to paper

Goldfinches on Thistle — Gallery Canvas Watercolor Glen worked from sketches andThree 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