Diver "Breaking Out" Oil Painting on Arches Oil Paper

Here's the finished piece of one of the series I am working on with a Breaking Out theme, along with my fighters. I find I am starting to paint themes about what I am experiencing in this season of my life, hence the series of fighters I have been working on along with these.
This is the smallest 12x16 and my first experiment with Arches Oil Paper. I like the bumpy quality of the texture for skin but I still prefer working on linen.
The pose should have been made a bit more dramatic by arching the legs up a bit more but I like the outcome and the abstract quality of the colors. (I will get a better camera.)
I have so much to learn but there is joy in the process!

"Breaking Out" symbolizes transitioning from one season into the new. Life is a series of seasons and sometimes the in-between times can seem a bit dark and hard to get your bearings. But there also comes a time of breakthrough when you leave the old and enter a brand new season; this is springtime. A time for joy, renewal, and a brand new expression of life.

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Nicolai Fechin Portrait Study

The look of Nicolai Fechin paintings are very unique and I wanted to do a study of this one because his drybrush technique is beautiful.

In 1911, place of honor in the Annual Winter Exhibition of the National Academy of Design in New York was assigned to a painting by thirty-year old Russian artist Nicolai Fechin (1881–1955). His “savage, splendid, and heterogeneous” canvas displayed a “barbaric mastery of form and color.” Fechin’s early preference for thick layers of color and pigment with very little oil, and a penchant for conflating the real and the abstract, would bring him international acclaim in the first decades of the 20th century.

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