furher work on vyd zherkou / whiting over celebration 26 / by Philip Tarlow

vyd zverkhou, 24x28” oil & collage on linen, as she looked at the end o fmy painting day.

3:47 PM: i went back & forth between these 2 paintings today, using discoveries and solutions i found in one and applying them to the other. they are both part of a new, lighter touch, with lots of white space in an uncrowded composition.

celebration 26, 36x36” as she looked folllowing my white-over earlier today

BELOW: celebration 26 before and after the white-over

12:14 PM: celebration 26 has been hanging in the house for the past week or two. as has been happening with other recent paintings, the more i gazed at it, the more it bothered me that here was so much going on my eye didn’t know where to rest.

so this morning i brought it back to the studio and began whiting over quite a bit.

whiting over much of celebration 26, 36x36” moments ago