gained vision III / figure contemplating tourlos, andros1975  egg tempera on board  18x47 cm. / by Philip Tarlow

this 1975 painting in egg tempera on board is representative of an entire series of works in egg tempera painted in greece the’70’s. most are in private and museum collections in greece, but tis one is in my collection. tourlos, for those of you not familiar, is a well known site in chora, on the island of andros, greece.

gIned vision III 80x20”/203x59cm. as it looked before (left) and after the work i did today

11:29 AM: the studio is just starting to heat up, but i haven’t yet turned on my swamp cooler; it’s so noisy that i like to wait till it’s necessary, which will be in the next little while.

i’m continuing work on gained vision III, carefully giving more definition to some of the areas i had whited over.

it’s somehow easier for me to work on a long, narrow painting, 80x20” on my work table, so that i don’t have to climbing up on my ladder. and it’s also easier for me to view the entire composition at a glance and see what’s working and what’s not.