A swimmer floats on a bright yellow-green kickboard in brilliant turquoise water, with a sandy beach and concrete pier in the foreground and the Chicago skyline rising majestically across the lake under a partly cloudy sky. The painting combines crisp graphic shapes, clean lines, and a saturated color palette to capture a moment of summer leisure against an urban backdrop. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.