Barn Swallows — Gallery Canvas Mammals This piece pulls those threads

This piece pulls those threads together into a single composition: the bald eagle in three stances

water exploding from both sides

and Glen found it with the coloured pencil medium that allows for the slow

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the red face and green head forming the chromatic anchor of the painting

Barn Swallows — Gallery Canvas Mammals This piece pulls those threadsThree barn swallows are caught mid hunt against a soft summer sky, mayflies rising on the breeze. Painting birds in flight is one of the hardest things in wildlife art most attempts feel either frozen or false. Glen solved it with watercolour, spending whole afternoons watching the swallows that nested near his Maple, Ontario studio, sketching the same wing positions over and over until the geometry of the dive became second nature. That patience