Hummingbirds and Hibiscus - Tote Bag Size:18" x 18" This is one of Glen's

This is one of Glen's most personal paintings — the subject is not wilderness but the familiar

the specific arrangement of the breast streaking and the yellow below rendered without shortcut

the autumn leaves behind it are secondary

the slate-blue and russet plumage vivid against the pale grasses of the reed margin

while the atmospheric blue-green background gives the whole composition a jewel-like intensity

Hummingbirds and Hibiscus - Tote Bag Size:18" x 18" This is one of Glen'sTwo Ruby throated Hummingbirds at a hibiscus one hovering before an open bloom below, the other perched on a stem above watching. The hibiscus flower is painted with the botanical completeness Glen brought to all his plant subjects: the soft salmon pink of the petals, the columnar stamen, the hibiscus leaves with their insect damage intact. The hummingbirds are painted at different scales the hovering bird farther away, smaller; the perched bird close