Saw-Whet Owl in Maple Tree — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:White the orchard

the orchard

talon studies

and coloured pencil — applying a luminous green-and-gold background that lifts the figure off the page

doing what eagles do

young aspen

Saw-Whet Owl in Maple Tree — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:White the orchardA Saw whet Owl perched in a maple in autumn the tiny owl surrounded by turning maple leaves, some still green, some gold, some already brown and falling, the bird completely still and watching from the cover the leaves provide. This is one of Glen's most painterly owl compositions: the leaves are given as much weight as the bird, the composition requiring the viewer to find the owl within the autumn foliage rather than having it presented front and