stage of a 2015 painting in progress / 2006 painting of a priest buying fish / by Philip Tarlow

11:34 AM: as i searched through my photo albums this morning, i came across this one, a stage in one of the studies i was making at the time. kinda wish i had left it in this state. well, at least i have a photo!

4:37 PM: today in my studio was an organizing day. most of the recent paintings that were tacked to my east wall have been taken down & rolled up, and few were stretched & are hanging on my south wall. the idea was to free up my painting wall, which will be repainted soon, and all the little tack holes smoothed over.

here you see a 2006 painting, a photo of which i came across. it’s a priest in the capital of the island of andros, chora, about to buy some freshly caught fish from a vendor.