starting "11-30-22 creek" / by Philip Tarlow

2:08 PM: i felt complete with the two paintings i’d been working on over the past week, so i launched into a new one, having learned a lot along the way. and that’s what counts. my learning curve seems to have gotten steeper recently. i could be imagining this, but i feel that with each new painting, i take a leap. not forward, but upward!

so it will be interesting to have a 3 day break, when we have a series of doctors appointments, and then be back in the studio on sunday. if past experience is any guide, i will have digested what i’ve been learning and find myself on a new foooting with the painting i started today, which already contains new solutions, like the orange/yellow rock in the center of the composition, with it’s green shadows.