interior with creek, day one / parisian interior completed /  by Philip Tarlow

interior with creekscape, day one, 32x42”

once i completed parisian interior, i began painting on an unstretched piece of 32x42” primed linen, which will be titled interior with creek.

12:32 PM: this morning i completed work on parisian interior, 72x28” the small additions i made were critical to this composition. i especially love the small blue/green lampshade seen through the doorway, in the center. this is the only bit of green in the painting, and adds immeasurably to the richness of the blues, yelows & pink/reds..

a little shading around the face of the porcelin leopard allows his face to pop.

PS: i just re-read my story page and it brought me to tears. have a look:https://www.philiptarlow.com/chatty-bio

parisian interior, 72x28” oil on linen

parisian interior /  by Philip Tarlow

parisian interior at the end of my painting day

1:31 PM: a few more strokes and i’m done for the day.

12:14 PM: i’ve been doing more work on parisian interior this morning. she’s beginning to sing, and, to continue with this metaphor, has yet to reach the highest notes.

this interior, by the way, was photographed during our visit to paris in 1995. we were invited to dinner by the french owner of this lavish home.

let’s see where i can take her over the next few hours, at which time we’ve scheduled a talk with a dear friend.

parisian interior, 72x28” at noon today

further work on parisian interior /  by Philip Tarlow

3:11 PM: i took parisian interior to the next stage today. you can begin to discern the interiorof the house, with the statue of a spottrd leopard in the foreground. the taiko drummers have now been completely painted over. to be continued tomorrow…

o-daiko, 72x28” as she looked moments ago

breakfast drawing /  by Philip Tarlow

in the next stage of o-daiko, the drummers have been paintyed over and an interior is taking their place. this interior is from a photo i shot in 1995.

o-daiko 72×28”, oil on linen, as she looked at the end of my painting day today

breakfast drawing 11-11-24, colored pencil & watercolor on paper

11:54 AM: i’m getting into the habit of making a drawing as i eat breakfast here in my studio. today i used the bottles of pills on my desk and proceeded to make a drawing with colored pencils and a tad of watercolor.

O-Daiko, 72x28" day one/ (became parisian interior on 11/13) /  by Philip Tarlow

12:55 PM: i started a new painting titled O -Daiko on the canvas i stretched yesterday. at the end of the day yeasterday, i went over the entire surface with the color you see here. it was not fully dry this morning, so i worked into it and my brush did pick up a little of the french ochre havane pigment.

O-Daiko, 72x28” as it looked moments ago.

cafe drawing / paintings on my north studio wall /  by Philip Tarlow

11:41 PM: i’m writing this from the coffee shop/restaurant in crestone. we’re here this morning because our internet is down due to a worn out/broken modem, which they can’t come out from alamosa and replace till tuesday. so we’re on the cafe internet; interesting to be without internet!

i may get to the studio later today and get some work done, although i was able to make a drawing here at the cafe, of a guy sitting at our table.

BELOW: paintings on my studio north wall: upper left: study of gorky painting. then there are 5 recent collages on paper and finally, on the right, a study of a vermeer portrait in oil on linen, painted about 15 years ago, along with other similar studies.

exposed flight & celebration 6 whited over /  by Philip Tarlow

2:19 PM: 3 whited over canvases i’ll be working into during the coming week.

celebration 6, 16x16” partially whited over today

exposed flight and celebration 6 on my studio floor, after being whited over

12:56 PM: i’m in an odd place right now with my work. i do something, like what i did yesterday, then the next morning i think it’s gross. so i proceeded to do one of my favorite things: the whiteover. never an opaque layer of white; thin enough to allow some underlying pieces of the composition to appear, faintly.

i won’t work back into them until they’re about 70 percent dry tomorrow morning, when, we hope, we’ll know the outcome of todays all important election.

day 3, "exposed flight" / REVISITING celebration 6 / yesterdays sky /  by Philip Tarlow

12:53 PM: exposed flight has once more become a vertical, as it was on day 1. i made a drawing of tree trunks using a warm brown color, adding deep blue water and a warm pink between the branches. this was, of course all inspired by a couple of print outs of my many creek photos. what peeks through is some of what i did yesterday, with the head of one of the two drummers, inspired by the photo i shot on the tv screen, of fred armisen. earlier, i had drawn lines in black compressed graphite, dividing the entire canvas into cubes, some of which can still be seen.

at the end of my painting day, i modified celebration VI, 16x18” which was last worked on march 25. below is the earlier version (left) and todays