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by William Lum
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This is the opposite of my colorful wood duck painting. I picked the dullest looking angle and sex for a hummingbird to paint, a female... more
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This is the opposite of my colorful wood duck painting. I picked the dullest looking angle and sex for a hummingbird to paint, a female Black-chinned hummingbird showing the underside (Archilochus alexandri). The plain look is for survival when nesting. Since they stay at one spot for an extended time it's better to blend than to be picked off by a predator.
The reason I painted this particular bird was that she successfully reared two chicks in my backyard. This year I had total of 8 chicks raised in 4 nests. When I see this painting, it'll remind me of her nesting at my house in Roseville, California. Painting was done in watercolor.
My search to find my biological family was the genesis of my journey into the world of art. When I finally found my birth family, at the age of 40, I was plunged into a new and very different family. On one occasion while talking with the father I had never known, I discovered that my great uncle was the renowned watercolorist Dong Kingman. Fatefully discovering a cheap watercolor paint set, and intrigued by my relationship with Kingman, I wondered if I had inherited any of his talent. This lingering question spurred me into trying to paint. My first challenge was deciding what subjects I would paint. As a fan of Van Gogh, and knowing that he painted images from his day to day life: houses, fields, people working, I decided to do the...
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