Chipmunk on Forest Floor — Gallery Canvas Wildlife the chipmunk's striped coat rendered

the chipmunk's striped coat rendered with the fine-brush control that made his small mammal studies exceptional

barely visible but precisely rendered

Each page highlights the unique characteristics and behaviors of these captivating creatures

painted by someone who looked

where the colour surrounds you on all sides and the light filters through from above

Chipmunk on Forest Floor — Gallery Canvas Wildlife the chipmunk's striped coat renderedA chipmunk navigates its way through a tangle of dried grasses, fallen maple leaves, and bare branches the whole composition a study in the texture of a Canadian forest floor in late autumn. Glen gives us the chipmunk's world at chipmunk scale: the branches overhead are significant obstacles, the leaf litter an entire terrain. The blue bittersweet berries just out of reach above add the only colour note to an otherwise amber and brown palette. This