Indigo Buntings — Gallery Canvas Print Size:22" x 24" the snow in shadow is

the snow in shadow is cooler than the snow in light

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

his wildflower paintings are among the most beloved in his catalogue

and designed by Michael

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

Indigo Buntings — Gallery Canvas Print Size:22" x 24" the snow in shadow isA 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