starting swirling creek II / by Philip Tarlow

3:46 PM: swirling creek II has gone through a number of stages today. BELOW are two of those stages, 2:20pm on the left and 3:34 on the right.; more to follow on my next day in the studio, which should be saturday, if i feel up to it. i’m having a molar extracted by my dentist tomorrow morning, and it takes a few days for the initial discomfort to subside. we’re hoping that alleviates the gum infection surrounding that tooth, which had a root canal 2 years ago & has been painful ever since.

but if i feel strongly about continuing work on this one, i may just take a few tylenol & get back to work saturday morning!

by the way, the bit of blue sky on the upper left is a collaged bit of a map. i’ve had difficulty collaging paper onto still wet (or dry for that matter) oil paint, so today i tried something new, using my neo megilp oil painting medium. it’ll take a while to fully dry,and we’ll see if it works in a few days or so.

1:27 PM: i started work on another 17x21” canvas today, painting over a previous one. it’s titled swirling creek II. i’ll post updates throughout the afternoon.