Cloud Bank — Giclée on Paper Watercolor But this piece belongs to

But this piece belongs to a different category

This piece is executed in coloured pencil

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose bird studies extend across all of Canada's ecological regions

demanding the kind of close observation he devoted his career to

and the familiarity shows

Cloud Bank — Giclée on Paper Watercolor But this piece belongs toA winter valley view from an elevated vantage forested ridges receding into a purple grey cloud bank, patches of snow visible through the distant tree canopy, the foreground spruce and bare deciduous trees rendered in deep coloured pencil strokes. This is the northern Canadian landscape at its most expansive and its most austere. Glen made this piece in coloured pencil, working with the medium's characteristic texture to suggest the depth of a cold