celebration 21, day 1/ 2000 creek painting / ceramic platters in our entryway / by Philip Tarlow

3:46 PM: today i stretched a new 32x36” primed portrait linen canvas and started celebration 21. as always, it’s way too early to tell, but it’s definitely an interesting beginning. as with celebration 20, i’d like to keep it fresh and spare, withj lots of unpainted white canvas.

DETAIL of a 47x56” creek painting from 2000, in oil on linen, hanging in our living room

7:42 AM: these were made by my friend joe about 10 years ago and he brought them to my studio for me to paint, after which he fired them.