Pool Cool

16 x 20 Oil on Gessobord

It's so interesting to watch people play in a pool.  This boy was really too big to climb on someone's shoulders, but I think he was trying to impress the girl on the side.  I wonder if she was impressed?  I really wasn't caught up in the people in this painting.  I wanted to focus on the pool water.  The colors are so different from any other water source, so this painting is really about the water...and summer.

Oh, Pool Boy!

8 x 8 Oil on Gessobord

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These women reminded me so much of the people at the  pool I used to go to when I was in my teens.  They had cabanas for the wealthier families and lockers for the "regular" folks.  We had a locker and didn't spend much time hanging around there, but spent our days either in the pool or following the cute pool boys who brought drinks and chairs to the cabana people.  My friends and I loved following the boys around and felt ever so lucky when they had us lugging the chairs to the people.  Why we didn't see that we were working for nothing is beyond me :-)  Our main goal was to get the boys' attention.  Ah....Youth!

Poised to Go

7 x 5 Oil on Gessobord

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This is the last (probably) in the series of pool paintings I did while our power was out and we were AC-less.  These really did make me feel a little cooler.  Strange how the mind works...mine at least :-)  I played with the background a little to add some movement to it.  I think the four paintings would make a good display side by side.

Perfect Back Dive

7 x 5 Oil on Gessobord

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My favorite of this series of pool paintings.  I really like the movement in this one.  Again, a little abstract and I could have spent a lot more time trying to get everything exact, but that's not what I'm about when I'm painting.  The movement is one of the most important components to me.

Lift Off!

7 x 5 Oil on Gessobord

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The second in a little series of divers done when our power (AC) was out.  Believe it or not, it did make me feel cooler doing these.  Psychological :-)  I wish I was there at my daughter's pool.  She's in Florida, and her temps were much cooler than ours.  Go figure!  Anyway, these little pieces are such fun to do.