Softly, softly , catchee monkey

This piece was so hard for me to do my whole brain fell out of my head. the umbrella could use a little depth but just getting lines and flowers was more than a poor body could stand. Anyway, the struggle is the victory not the finished project.

I have always loved this little phrase and I have done a couple of pieces in intaglio on the theme. But i used squirrel monkeys. Then i would have had to make the cat sinister, a jaguar. Nevermind the fact that chimps and tigers don't mix. Maybe they are at Michael jackson's Neverland.