working on 3 paintings:11-1-22 swirling creek, pompeiian reverie and 12-20 creekscape / by Philip Tarlow

pompeiian reverie at 4pm today

4:18 PM: i started out by making a new 21x17” oil inspired by ancient pompeiian floor mosaics, and moving back & forth between that & 11-1-22 swirling creek, which i’ve been working on for the past week and a 2020 creekscape watercolor, which has now become a watercolor/collage. i’m noticing an emerging aesthetic/energetic. it always starts with something more realist and then evolves towards abstraction.