Whitecap © 1998 Tom Ferguson Still got it.  oil on canvas 90 x 30".. I stood on a knoll, looking down at the beach in Marquette, Michigan, Lake Superior, home town, and saw a peculiar woman below, sketched her & later, back in Atlanta, worked it up into this painting. My interest in impasto returns abit in this one, in the jacket area. I love how whitecap refers to her hat and the breaking of a wave, choppy water... and the stylized, off-hand way of representing this scene, allowing the implications to wash over one, tongue-in-cheek, yet....

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