#59 Squirrel Monkey 2 #59 Metal Print

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In the early 90's, I took the family down to Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. We watched the animal shows. After the show a handler let us see a squirrel monkey up close nibbling on a treat. I painted two paintings of that monkey, this the second one. This painting is the 59th painting I've done in my early learning period in the 90's. All my paintings are numbered and that number is sequential. Painting #191 is when I restarted painting after a long absence, even though that painting was half done and started in the 90's. I still have painting #1 in my art room and will never sell that.

This painting was done in transparent watercolor. It took several layers of black to get that black background.

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...