7/4/2021 creek oil, stage 1/ 7/4/2021 & starting watercolor collage / fresh caught alaskan halibut/ 1989 palm beach daily news article / by Philip Tarlow

7/4/2021 watercolor/collage as it looked at the end of my work/play day

5:00 PM: ABOVE: here’s the latest stage of 7/4/2021 watercolor/collage. work/play will resume tomorrow morning.

7/4/2021 watercolor/collage as it looked moments ago, after a few hours of work/play

3:05 PM: i’ve been working, or playing as you wish with 7/4/2021 watercolor/collage since my last post 2 hours ago. more and more, I experience these new watercolor/collages as music. and as I write this, a sudden thunderstorm has added to the mix, providing rumbles at the right moment, the sound of wind gusting through the trees, along with an indescribable fragrance. I still have some juice, so i’m going back to work/play & will post at the end of my day here in the studio.

1:00 PM: as i’ve said in previous posts, I like working on two things at the same time, switching back & forth as the mood strikes me. fortunately, there’s no one to tap me on the shoulder & say “hey! you can’t do that!

so, after making the first fresh marks on the canvas you see BELOW, I started 7/4/2021 watercolor/collage.

it already has a few collaged bits, and will likely acquire more as the day goes on. i’ll post when I get to the next stage of this one, which measure 10 1/2 x 22 in.

at work moments ago on the new 7/4/2021 watercolor/collage, 10.5x22”

making the first marks on the new 7/4/2021 creek oil. 26x78 in.

11:33 AM: my intension was to start a new watercolor/collage this morning, but I found that blank 26x78 in. canvas sitting on the saw horses irresistible. so I launched in, and now that i’ve made the initial brush marks, I feel better about starting the new watercolor/collage.

BELOW: quote from matisse’s journal

quote from matisse’s journals

last night we had fresh caught alaskan halibut smothered in onions & tomatoes, thanks to a friend who just returned from a fishing expedition to homer, alaska.

it was, as you might imagine, delicious. and there’s one more serving left for tonight!

fresh caught alaskan halibut smothered in onions & tomatoes

this article appeared in the palm beach daily news during the period when mikela & I lived there. I just found it, & had forgotten that I showed my work at trump plaza. kind of embarrassing.