stretching “gained vision LLL” / starting my day with a self portrait drawing / by Philip Tarlow

3:48 PM: today i stretched gained vision III and took it back to the house, where i hung it at the head of our stairs.

10:55 AM: i started my day today going back & forth with a FB friend, then making 2 colored pencil self portraits, (the one on the left, from the previous page, which appears faintly, is the first, more abstracted version) in this corner of my studio,, above the colored pencil portrait, is my study of an arcile gorky painitng.

i was going back & forth between drawing & stretching 2 16x20” canvases to fool around on when i’m taking a break from larger works. yesterday i cut 2 more 80x20” pieces of extra fine quadruple primed portrait linen, which i plan on strarting work on as soon as i post this. more later!