This is a great photo of Jason Monet painting in January of '01. This shot was taken in Padang Bai, Bali. While he was painting Jason was laughing to himself saying "I found the color!" He was overjoyed. After that I looked back over his body of work and noticed that he did seem to historically paint lots of dark pieces or colors mixed with lots of shade. Since that day many more of Jason Monet's paintings seem to be overloaded with color. Truly he did find a new level of color that day!