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The Swimming Hole
Acrylic on canvas board
37 × 27.5 centimetres
Detail of work:
This work started off really neat, but just went downhill from there in my opinion. I got the original idea from a work I saw in a biography of Alexander Calder, and worked with it from there. I was trying to make a bright, busy, colourful, yet simplified flat image like one would find in a young children's reader. I also wanted to add depth to the flatness, sort of like a diorama (peep-box). I tried to do this with many layers and lots of clutter, but it didn't work too well. It got really hard to find different shades of green for everything so that the frogs would show up against their background, and eventually my colours became downright yucky. This work also looks better up close than from a distance, but unfortunately, seeing it from a distance may convince the viewer not to bother looking at it close up.
