Beginning Banana Trees

This work in progress looked like this about a month ago. A blank 24 x 40 canvas had been sitting on my easel for over a year while I pondered what to do. After a recent trip to Kauai, I decided to fill it with banana trees. There are no wild monkeys on Kauai (this one's from my daughter's Thailand photos), but a friend thought there were when she heard a monkey-like screeching outside our window. It turned out to be a tree branch scraping against a gutter, but I had hoped to discover a creature like this instead.