starting my commission: "gained vision," 64x18"/162.5x45.75cm. / by Philip Tarlow

3pm: why do i so love commissions? for starters, my personality type is random abstract, which in essence means that if you give me a direction i like, with few restrictions, i’m full speed ahead.

so a few days ago, mikela pointed to one of the walls in the area of our living room adjacent to our kitchen, and asked if i could make a painting with those dimensions for that wall. i immediately broke out the tape measure, took the measurements and, this morning, cut the canvas from the new roll of my favorite artfix extra smooth portrait linen, made the preliminary drawing & started painting.

this is phase one, and we’ll see where it takes me tomorrow. but i’m very excited!