Great Blue Heron — Framed Piece NEW the facial ruff enormous and

the facial ruff enormous and dense with pencilled hair

has here been transformed: Glen returned to the work years later with soft pastel

the granite shore and mixed boreal forest reflected in the rain-smoothed water

each petal placed where a violet petal would actually be

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose large mammal studies are among the most technically accomplished in Canadian wildlife art

Great Blue Heron — Framed Piece NEW the facial ruff enormous andA Great Blue Heron lifts from a marsh wings spreading wide, neck curved, feet just leaving the water among the cattails and lily pads. This 1993 watercolour catches the heron in the most difficult moment: the transition from stillness to flight, the body not yet airborne, the wings not yet at full stroke. Glen solved it with loose, luminous watercolour washes for the atmospheric background and tighter, more deliberate brushwork for the bird itself.