Canada Lynx Portrait — Framed Piece Print Size:8.5" x 10" the black wolf behind it

the black wolf behind it watchful and still

A single maple stands in full autumn fire — every leaf a different shade of gold

A Whiskered Screech-Owl — the small owl of the American Southwest's sky island forests — rendered in the earth-toned camouflage plumage that makes it nearly invisible against tree bark

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose work documenting Canadian wildlife spans five decades of international recognition

A male and female Cardinal on a bare rosehip bush in late autumn — the dried berries dark and clustered

Canada Lynx Portrait — Framed Piece Print Size:8.5" x 10" the black wolf behind itThe lynx fills the frame a full face graphite portrait, the eyes pale and direct, the facial ruff enormous and dense with pencilled hair. There is nowhere to look except directly back at the animal. Glen rendered the lynx's face with the meticulous graphite work that distinguished his drawing practice from his watercolours: every individual strand of the ruff suggested rather than laboured, the eyes caught with a quality of attention that photographs