"ART IS AUTOBIOGRAPHY MADE FLESH" Marlon Brando / next stage of "good doc III" / “good doc iv” becomes “skoufa” / by Philip Tarlow

3:01 PM: at about noon i began work on the next stage of good doc IV, which has changed titles and is now skoufa. the trees are more developed as well as the figures, who were inspired by photos i shot about a decade ago from a balcony on skoufa street in athens, adjacent to kolonaki square. compositionally, it’s in alignment with paintings i’ve made fairly recently, especially my anschutz from above series, which you can locate if you click on the SERIES tab in the menu bar & scroll down.

skoufa, 35x37” at the end of my painting day today

11:21 AM: following my morning breakfast & morning drawing, i made some more marks on good doc III. do you think the producers of the good doctor TV serial have any clue that there’s a colorado based artist using images from their show as inspiration for painintgs? i think not!

so here’s what it looks like following this morning’s marks.

and here’s my morning drawing for today, which is a self portrait in this mirror, with collaged pieces of map.