The Meriwether

March 2024

By Jesse Nunan

A trip to Barbados several weeks ago led to many different adventures. In this month’s edition I will be sharing one that I think you will find a-peel-ing (hint: it’s about monkeys). Apologies for the banana related humor.

While staying on the island, we took a day trip to a wildlife preserve in on the peak of the island. They’d advertised that you could see monkeys being fed.

However, while we were expecting a fence or some distance to be in between us and the monkeys, it was a pretty big surprise when one of the employees dumped the fruits on the picnic table my dad and I were sitting at.

After I got over the initial startle of sitting so close to these animals I was able to get some great content of them eating.

There was also an adorable pair sleeping above us in a tree.

Because I found those two so adorable I did a digital drawing of them.

I did this by highlighting the dark spots of figures which created this contoured composition.

Hope you enjoyed the monkey content! More to come from the trip. Below are blocks and prints of the drawing and the photographs!