Mad Art Series 1: Monkey Kingdom

In an effort to share some of Madison’s artwork, I’ve started a series of blog entries where her art will be accompanied by my verbal ramblings.

For continuity’s sake, I will do one of 3 things for each blog entry:

1. Recant the story Madison gave when she presented this picture to us, possibly embellishing here and there just because I like being wordy.

2. Accept the fact that I have a terrible memory, thus forgetting the main details of her version of the story, and just make up my own interpretation of it.

3. Ramble on about something completely unrelated to the picture or it’s intended story, because I have failed in all aspects of memory, interpretation and general functionality.


Enjoy…

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This is definitely a favorite of mine. Madison drew this one for me as a gift. I love her use of color and most especially monkeys. I’m a big fan of monkeys. Incidentally, I have chosen option 2 with this one (click the pic for a bigger view)...





Monkey Kingdom


For your viewing pleasure, we have the noble chimpanzee, Marty, benevolent ruler of Monkey Kingdom. Everyone loves Marty…he’s a real chimp’s chimp: Sharing bananas, bounding from tree limb to tree limb and picking bugs out of his neighbor’s scalps.

They even find his eccentric tastes endearing. Unlike other chimps, Marty likes to dress himself in a suit of armor. He does this because he likes shiny things.

In fact, he likes the shiny so much, he has a royal troupe of 8 chimps who individually rotate 3 hour shifts with the sole purpose of polishing his armor upon his every whim. Eccentric, indeed. Don’t even get me started on how he bathes in this contraption.

In this rendering, Marty is marching in front of his towering castle. Bananas are obviously his royal crest, as evidenced by their appearance on the castle facade, as well as on the flags. Off in the distance, we see the modest homes of Monkey Kingdom, and, of course, the train that leads to this fantastic burg.

Of particular note, the castle is adorned with windows, which is totally cool. Especially when you're a monkey and you like to jump out of things. Like windows.