Chipmunk — Gallery Canvas Canada "Glen Loates Animal Babies" showcases

"Glen Loates Animal Babies" showcases a diverse array of adorable animal infants

that specific parental behaviour that loons perform while the young are small enough to be carried

the brown-and-white streaked plumage rendered with the fine-brush patience that this tiny bird demands

The trout rises toward the intruder

and distant blue hills is one of the most satisfying compositional structures in Ontario landscape

Chipmunk — Gallery Canvas Canada "Glen Loates Animal Babies" showcasesA chipmunk among autumn oak leaves maple foliage golden above, dried leaves and blue bittersweet berries scattered on the forest floor below. This 1982 watercolour is characteristic of Glen at his most observational: the chipmunk is almost incidental in its own painting, the forest floor given equal weight and attention. Every leaf is an individual leaf, every twig placed where gravity and autumn decay would place it. Glen believed the background was