Today, it’s warm enough to swim several times during the day. You emerge from the water that just refreshed you. Have a sit in the sun and quietly wait for the skin to dry. Then it’s hot again. You deserve a new dive. Sounds like a hard day…

This painting was a very relaxing one to create. Nothing in the process was really planned except for the original drawing. I started with an ocher undercoat then built the mosaic in the foreground. Then followed a few glazing steps, the browning of the skin, and some final touches of intense white at the intersection of some water volutes. Stuff I love.