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Richard - Why? Well, it just happened really. I was painting the figure with the blue hat from the front. It was towards the end of the Californian summer, and I had images of light and the heat floating around my head, and a pleasant feeling of my continuing the tradition of the Californian Realists of mid last century, but I was working myself more and more deeply into a rut fussing with something - I can't remember what now - and then a glance at the form and shadows at the side of the figure inspired me to do the whole thing again. When I began this second time, the painting's initial marks suggested that the head was turned away, so that's what I did. I had been looking at Homer's paintings at the time too, so that's probably what gave me the idea of a hat.
It's oil on canvas, 30" x 24".
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