Last week a small painting of a pair of legs set over swimming pool water featured in the Blog and received a very positive response. I feel I want to paint more along these lines, hence the new work above, which is a little larger.
I loved painting the water and as followers of my Blog will know, I always like painting female legs, but would like to have a bit more of a narrative theme to this piece. The title ‘Moving On’ is because I feel this woman wants to move on, start again, possibly from a failed relationship and she is going to kick up the water – making a bigger splash. There will be much more light to this painting as I work it up, more white highlights to make the splashing etc.
There will be more light on the horizon, shimmering on the water, which looks a bit obvious, but I would like this to be a positive painting. There is darkness on the horizon as well, but the light is breaking through and the woman is, I think, happy to kick up the water. There will be more lighter tones on the water, but I have to wait till next week for the paint to dry before I can do that..
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