#270 High Hand Koi 4 #270 Acrylic Print

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Another koi painting inspired by the High Hand Nursery koi pond. In this painting, I wanted to see what the fish looked like if the background was blacked out. I used an old bottle of Chinese brush ink that I had sitting around for decades to create the blacked out background. The black makes the fish seem like they are floating in space and the colors pop out. Another experiment in my exploration of painting.

The background was painted with ink but the koi were painted in watercolor which makes this mixed media.

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...