#349 Building West Park #349 Canvas Print

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This is a painting of the construction of West Park High School about a half mile from my house. I see the progress every morning when I walk my dog, Mochi. The new school will be right next to the original historic Fiddyment Farm House (not in the painting) which was built 1879 and now being restored by Roseville Historical Society.

The school will open for 9th and 10th grade students school year 2020-21. West Park High School is designed to initially accommodate 1,200 students, with future expansion capacity up to 2,400 students. It is located near the intersection of Hayden Parkway and Bob Doyle Drive, in the Fiddyment Farm neighborhood. The spelling of the new school’s name differs from other spellings of the nearby Westpark neighborhood, written as one word by the area’s developer and on Google Maps.

This 15” X 22” watercolor painting was painted on Arches, rough, 140 lb 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...