Sleepy Gibraltar babies by gunsan
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My ex husband and his wife have been sailing the world around for over 8 years, and now they are back in Europe again, in Portugal. The boat is on land for the winter, and they are in Sweden for meeting children and grandchildren.
Here I have painted a shot of the famous Gibraltar monkeys, two sleepy babies on top of the mountain. I got many funny shots of the monkeys, who are well trained car thieves, not at all shy.
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Comments (19)
Such a tender and beautifully done piece.
very soft, gun, and somehow you made their coats look like soft fur, dappled & downy as the coat of puppies. Even more delicate is your softening of the water or sky (it looks like water to me): You made the background look like a delicate shag or plush carpeting. Really, your animal paintings ask us, gently, that we sit with them and look closely: They're very subtle and always very inward & sensuous. It's quite restful and, like so much of your animal painting, quiet & really intimate.
OH how lovely this is. They look so relaxed and in harmony. A very lovely painting Gun :)
fine image, gun
Ummmm ... I'm from Gibraltar, Gun, and this brings me a lot of lovely memories. They are great thieves (they love sweets), if they hear a noise in your pockets they go running for it, he he he. I can give you some info of them. They are really called Barbary Apes, (Macaca Sylvanus) and are tail-less monkeys and they are the only free-roaming monkeys in Europe. Natives of North Africa, their presence in Gibraltar probably dates from the early days of the British garrison when it is presumed that they were imported as pets or even game, inevitably finding the rough limestone cliffs and scrub vegetation a congenial habitat. Many legends have grown up around them. One is that they travelled from their native Morocco via a subterranean tunnel starting at St Michael's Cave leading down underneath the strait. The fact is that the apes are firmly established on the Rock. Today, in addition to the pack resident at Apes Den, there are five other packs living wild on the steep slopes of the Rock. ;O) Great work, my friend!
Beautiful work on this sweet image of a couple of little thieves. LOL They don't look like thieves to me, but that is what would make me a major victim of these sweeties. LOL
So cute!!!Thank you for sharing with us
A lovely, sweet and tender image, Gun. I always love it when our artists share a little about themselves with their posts. Good to hear from you this way :)
Very lovely image and great work
A wonderful painting of these sweeties. And interesting about your ex. CC
sweet your capture
You have got these sleepy little monkeys looking so soft and adorable.
Soooo cute :o)
A very nice painting of these funny little guys.
So sweet and soft and tender.
Such sweet innocense! To think they will become devilish thieves is hard to believe! You have again created a magical painting!
They are darling!!
Fantastic scene, excellent work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looks great!