Blue Jays — Gallery Canvas ducks and this study shows why

and this study shows why

A Golden Eagle stands over a young rabbit on a sun-bleached rock face — wings still spread to balance

the way the brown plumage catches and absorbs light differently from a smaller hawk

the other slicing deeper below

The anatomical precision in the wing patterning and crest is the result of years of close study — he knew these birds the way a neighbour knows a face

Blue Jays — Gallery Canvas ducks and this study shows whyTwo blue jays hold their ground in an oak tree as the first snow of autumn dusts the remaining leaves. The composition captures a specific Canadian moment that brief overlap when the last of the fall colour and the first winter snow exist together. Glen rendered the jays' electric blue against the tawny copper of the oak leaves with the kind of chromatic confidence that only comes from painting the same birds, in the same season, year after year. Blue