celebration 21 transforms (again)/ 1999, entrance to the Andros monastery / by Philip Tarlow

celebration 21 32x36” oil & collage on portrait linen at 3:45 pm today

2:17 PM: this is probably the 3rd or maybe 4th time i’ve painted over what i did the previous day. this time it was with yellow. i worked back into it, introducing 2 large female figures, one of which is wearing a red garment. the black outlining creates a boldness surpassing it’s celebration series

entrance to panachrandou monastery, andros 1999, 22x23” gouache on paper

12:10 PM: in 1999 i made a series of paintings based on my visits to the Panachrandou Monastery in the moutains of Andros, in the Cycladic islands. this one, which was among the over 100 paintings returned to me from Gremillion Gallery in Houston after it closed, measures 22x23” and is in gouache on paper.