Painting one - Swimming Boys

This painting was done very quickly from an advertisement in an old national geographic magazine, the colours were like they are in the painting because of the era. I like how simple it is, yet there is a great feeling of a moment in time captured, the details aren't necessary to depict what kind of scene this is. It was painted with only one layer of paint, which I find quite liberating in contrast to the work I was doing last semester, and the texture of the paint has a nice fluid quality to it which I would like to develop further.