In the Wave is painted like a breath taken inside moving water. The figure tilts forward, half-claimed by a green-blue crest, while sunlight splits across the surface in quick, confident marks. Richard Wieth favors gesture over detail, using broken edges and layered color to suggest motion you feel rather than see. The result is a small seascape with big presence—an intimate window into summer, salt, and courage.
 
Notice how passages of warm skin tones flicker against cool sea, how thicker paint rides the line of foam, and how background shapes stay intentionally spare so your attention lives with the swimmer. This is the Wieth promise: to honor the mystery of a moment without spelling everything out.
 
The painting reads beautifully from across a room, yet rewards close looking with subtle shifts of hue that echo the ocean’s living change.