"Blue Bather" in progress

Anyone who knows me knows that I have an affinity for images of bathers donning old fashioned bathing caps! "Blue Bather" is the latest in my series of capped ladies. I have been working on her this week, she is 24x24 and created totally out of hand-made papers (no painted background on this one, as I do at times) by my local paper maker and artist Judith Segal, as well as hand-made papers that I have purchased, hand painted papers, maps and if you look close in the water you will find line drawing illustrations of proper swimming technique which I took from a book that I purchased just for the purpose of TEARING IT UP!