#434 Flight #434 Metal Print

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My watercolor painting of a bird in flight. I spotted this Black-Chinned Hummingbird in my back yard. For most of the year there are some blossoming flowers for them to get food here. This one was checking out my camellias. It took a few photos but I finally got one that shows the wings during flight clear enough to paint. Every year I have two to four nests a year for the last five years. My place in Roseville, California, is like a hummingbird factory. For the Isolation Art Challenge group with 60 Themes for 60 Days, this was Day 24 Flight.

This 12” X 16” watercolor was painted on Arches, 140 lb, cold press 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...