Mosquitoes — Gallery Canvas Artwork A pair of Hooded Mergansers

A pair of Hooded Mergansers on rippled water — the male in foreground with his extraordinary black-and-white crest fully raised

a second clover stem curving below

precisely adapted

this drawing is one of his most dramatically composed and ambitious works on paper

Mosquitoes — Gallery Canvas Artwork A pair of Hooded MergansersMosquitoes the ones that made the Canadian wilderness summer what it is. Glen painted them with the same magnified precision he brought to his songbird studies: the compound eyes, the proboscis, the venation of the wings, the long hind legs, all rendered at a scale that forces the viewer to actually look. This is the wildlife art subject no one expects, delivered with complete seriousness. Glen's insect studies demonstrate his belief that everything