Trillium — Gallery Canvas Colored Pencil This is botanical illustration at

This is botanical illustration at its most precise and most personally invested

Autumn leaves caught in the wind — the composition built entirely from leaves at different stages of fall and flight

the precise rake of the forked tail — none of it is decorative

The trillium — Ontario's provincial flower — frames the fawn at the left

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose White-tailed Deer paintings are held in collections across North America

Trillium — Gallery Canvas Colored Pencil This is botanical illustration atA White Trillium Ontario's provincial flower rendered with the botanical completeness that Glen brought to all his wildflower subjects: the three petals, the three sepals, the three leaves, the single stem rising from the forest floor. The Trillium is both botanically simple and visually perfect, and Glen treated it with the respect the subject deserves. The White Trillium appears throughout Glen's work as a companion plant in his spring forest