Pictured top: Moonlight Swim (Progress view), acrylic on canvas. From the current suite of works provisionally titled Flowers of the Femmes Fatales.
In this instance, the flower associated with my protagonist, namely a water lily, appears as a stylised motif on her bathing cap. Its design was adapted from a vintage knitting pattern that was sourced online. (See below).
On my morning walks by the Yarra River in Melbourne I pass a similar No Swimming sign to the one portrayed in the painting. Its inclusion in the work was intended from the outset.
Directly below are a series of developmental views of Moonlight Swim.
