STarTING THE TAIKO SERIES / walking stick corner / by Philip Tarlow

2:46 PM: THIS AFTERNOON I STARTED what is to become the taiko series of 7 watercolor/gouache paintings, each of whic is 22x6” on arches watercolor paper. stay tuned!

12:55 PM: the rolls of canvas i order come in 85” long cardboard tubes, which, over time had accumulated in a corner of my studio. there were a lot of them, and as i’m currently in cleanup/organizing mode, i found someone to take them to the trash. in their place, i created a waking stick corner, with a number of walking sticks i’ve gathered over time. i decorated some and left others in their original state.

so i arranged them in the corner where the cardboard tubes had been along with a watercolor-gouache of a skateboarder.