Wood Ducks — Gallery Canvas Enhanced looking through maples and birches

looking through maples and birches to the lake surface beyond

sketching the same wing positions over and over until the geometry of the dive became second nature

the kill at its feet

its ears alert

The composition is spare and tense

Wood Ducks — Gallery Canvas Enhanced looking through maples and birchesWood Ducks the male's extraordinary breeding plumage one of the most complex and beautiful of any North American waterfowl rendered with the precision the species demands. The iridescent green and purple of the head, the intricate white facial pattern, the chestnut breast, the golden flanks: all of it is there in Glen's watercolour, each colour zone placed exactly where it falls on the actual bird. The Wood Duck is among the most technically