Each year I commemorate the Chinese New Year by drawing the year’s totem animal. This year February 8th, the first day of the celebration, came and went without a page in my journal. I was uninspired.
Until yesterday.
I spied this little guy nestled behind a silk flower blossom on my design wall. He called out… “Hey! What about me? I can do it!!!”
And so, for me, 2016 is the year of the Sock Monkey!!!
Dana Burrell... Art 
Love it, Dana! I may need to sketch a monkey now.
I’m a Monkey and I like Sock Monkeys! Nice sketch, adorable model.
He’s my studio monitor. He sits behind a large chartreuse Gerbera daisy and makes sure I’m working!