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I attended the Nevada City Victorian Christmas event last year with a Meetup group. Nevada City is a quaint, scenic, historic, and sometimes quirky town of just over 3,000 people in the Sierra foothills. Many of the town’s residents are descendants of Gold Rush immigrants who arrived in Nevada City from Cornwall, bringing with them the tradition of lively street celebrations from Victorian England. The Victoria Christmas celebration in Nevada City started in 1978.

I saw this group of carolers on Broad Street near the National Hotel. I liked the look of the Victorian style house on Broad Street and Cottage Street about three blocks away. For this watercolor painting I combined the two. If this was a scene back East there would be snow, but this is sunny California.

Watercolor painting is 15" X 22" on Kilimanjaro, cold press, 140 lb watercolor paper.

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...