The goals I set for myself was that I wanted to draw in full color and continue the project past my previous record of 31 days.

“Underwater garden”

Artist Samantha French was born raised in Minnesota where she attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and now lives and works in Brooklyn. Her current body of work explores nostalgic memories from her childhood spent swimming in lakes of northern Minnesota. The underwater portraits portray people both in and out of water in the midst of perfect tranquil moments captured gracefully with oil paints. She says of her work: My current body of work is focused on swimmers underwater and above. More

This is part of a series I started photographing women underwater.