Family at Avalon Hotel, ND

Date

ND

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions

24 × 36 × 2 in

Categories

peopleAcrylic

Visual description

A shimmering aqua, blue, and white swimming pool stretches straight back from the us, the viewers, as we look down on this bubbly scene of a family at play in the Avalon Hotel Pool. At the far top side and left middle side of the pool are pink waterslides. On the right side and near bottom side are purple diving boards. There are 6 figures in total, all wearing white bathing caps. Figure #1, facing away from the viewer in the lower left corner of the image, is mostly underwater except for their head and shoulders. The underwater stairs to enter the pool are just to figure #1's left, rendered in soft, slightly darker blue lines. Figure #2 is halway up on the left side of the image at the bottom of the pink slide on the left side of the pool, about to splash into the water in a reddish-orange bathing suit. Their arms and legs are spread wide, their eyebrows are raised, and they smile with brown eyes and red lips as they gaze straight across the pool to the right. Figure #3 is at the bottom of the pink slide on the far side of the pool, and faces directly towards the viewer with brown eyes and red lips, wearing a red bathing suit. Their legs are already underwater, painted over with semi-transparent strokes of aqua colored paint. Their arms and legs are spread wide, as they brace themself to splash into the water. Figure #4 is in the top right corner of the image on the purple diving board, which is supported by a metal pole painted dark blue with a shiny streak of light aqua. Figure #4 wears a yellow bathing suit that flares out at the skirt. Their left foot is touching the diving board, their right foot is already in the air stretching left towards the pool, and their right arm stretches up in the air, as they face towards the viewer, smiling with blue eyes and red lips. Figure #5 is in the pool, wearing a red bathing suit. Except for their head and upper arms, their body is underwater, and they face directly towards the viewer with red lips and green eyes. Their arms and legs are spread wide in a jumping-jack or starfish pose. Figure #6 is at the bottom center of the image in a black bathing suit, facing away from the viewer. Their arms are spread wide with elbows bent upwards towards the sky, and their legs are spread even wider, curving upward with toes pointed to the sky. They appear to be in mid-air, having just jumped off the purple diving board, about to come splashing down into the pool.