continuing work on "windows 3" / by Philip Tarlow

windows 3, oil on linen, 17x21” as it looked at the end of my painting day today

today is a short day, so we can get to my doctors appointment at 3. i continued painting windows 3, to the central and right portions of the composition and adding a figure on the right.

i like how the white spaces allow the composition to breathe, so i may leave most of them alone. the urge to describe is always rearing it’s head & needs to be tamped down again & again.

i also like the dominant tans & greys punctuated by the blue of the ladder top & the new guy’s shirt, and the yellows. i think that one violet shadow is enough, and if i were to extend it to the other areas in shadow, it would lose it’s potency.

the new figure i added today