Throwing it back to 2016 – The Swimmer Oil Portrait Painting

Oil portrait
work in progress

It’s such a shame that artists tend to blog about a painting once or twice, and the post is soon buried under a hundred other posts, never to be seen or looked at again.

#ThrowbackThursday

This happens to be one of my favorite paintings, so I thought why not bring it back to the top of my blog posts in TBT style.

Hey girl, hey! It’s nice to see you again. 🙂

The Swimmer
6×6 oil portrait painting on hardboard panel
Available here

I’m thinking of mixing things up a bit for the summer, and making a new weekly habit out of digging through my 20+ year archive to see what I can dust off, and re-post. So look for some Wayback Wednesday (personal art: photo stories, poems, art journal pages) and Throwback Thursday (older paintings) posts next week.

Every Friday I’ll have a new video up on both of my YT channels. I hope you’ll check it out, and subscribe.

Portrait channel – tomorrow I’ll be flipping through one of my art journals, and sharing it with you. Plus, I’ll be posting a new pink and gray abstract painting on my palette knife channel.

So, it’s almost the weekend, and it feels like summer is just around the corner. We’ve finally been having some beautiful warm weather. The rain has stopped, and the rivers and creeks are no longer flooding. At least I don’t think so..I don’t watch the local news (or any news..I have way less anxiety, fear, and anger to deal with this way) unless the weather is bad.

I’ve been trying to get some quality Chewy time in every morning. He’s been cooped up indoors for weeks, so we’ve been going for a 30 to 45 minute walk. We live within walking distance of a few different parks now, which is really cool.