Cooling Off At the Lake

8x6
acrylic on gessobord

Who's ready for Summer?  I am!  I can't wait for swimming weather.  Usually around this time of year I am visiting my mom on Oahu, but that's not going to happen this year, so I'm just hoping summer comes early here!

This painting started a little differently. I was using a reference photo from Unsplash, and it had a dark background.  I painted it like the photo but it looked a little too "dramatic", so I decided to brighten it up a bunch and I'm quite happy with the result.