2018 watercolor/collage 1 will become a 78 inch high oil / by Philip Tarlow

4:33 PM: this morning i read and made corrections to mikela’s proposal for an important grant for her educational product and took periodic breaks, which allowed me to be more focused when i resumed as well as allowing me to start a new project. the new project will be an oil, possibly with collaged elements, inspired by this 2018 watercolor/collage, which i have framed & hanging in the studio.

it’s something, believe it or not, i’ve never done! it’s going to be tricky to translate the spontaneity of this small work on paper to a 78” tall canvas, but i haven’t signed a contract stating that it has to exactly mirror the watercolor/collage! more than anything, it excites me as a challenge, whatever happens.

we’ll see tomorrow how it goes…