5/30/21 creek oil now complete, I move on to un-stretching old paintings and stretching new canvases / by Philip Tarlow

1:13 PM: when I walked in this morning, 5/30/2021 creek oil felt resolved. since it’s stretched over masonite to facilitate collaging, i’m un-stretching and re-stretching that one as well as the previous one, seen BELOW.

once I get everything un-stretched and re-streched with fresh primed artful quadruple primed linen, i’ll be able to launch into some new work.

generally in the break periods between painting days, I get new inspirations (I was about to say ideas but thought better of it.)

it’s also very valuable to go through this process because it allows me to compare new work with older work. I feel it’s getting better, brighter, more playful, more inventive while at the same time honing in on that fugitive who am I, anyway?