Raccoon Baby — Bag Insects and Butterflies summer undergrowth — is painted

summer undergrowth — is painted with the same botanical attention Glen applied to his wildlife subjects

Each bag is printed to gallery standards and built to carry the conversation wherever you go

He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose watercolour wildlife studies set the standard for the form in Canada

This is a territorial encounter in progress: the Pileated

the white chest visible below

Raccoon Baby — Bag Insects and Butterflies summer undergrowth — is paintedA young raccoon sits at a pond's edge among pickerelweed the juvenile plumage still fluffy, the mask already distinct, the animal regarding the viewer with the alert curiosity of a young mammal encountering something new. A leopard frog sits at the lower right, barely visible but precisely rendered. The pickerelweed behind the kit is botanically exact another wetland species given its due. This painting brings together two classic Ontario pond species