Purple Heron - Tote Bag wildlife his graphite raptor portraits are

his graphite raptor portraits are among his most technically demanding and sought-after works

looking through maples and birches to the lake surface beyond

the same careful study from specimens and field observation

Glen painted the encounter between fox and pheasant as a naturalist rather than a dramatist — the relationship between these two species

Purple Heron - Tote Bag wildlife his graphite raptor portraits areA Purple Heron stalks the shallows the body folded forward in the hunting crouch, neck extended, the slate blue and russet plumage vivid against the pale grasses of the reed margin. This is not a North American subject: the Purple Heron is a European and African species, and this painting shows Glen working from observation beyond his home territory. The anatomy is exact the distinctive thin neck, the streaked rufous of the head and neck, the blue