sotiris spatharis ii / 2/15/25 collage updated /  by Philip Tarlow

sotiris spatharis II, 11x7” watercolor on arches paper

1:23 PM: sotiris spatharis ii, day 3; this is the completed watercolor.

i made some modifications to the february 15 untitled collage. essentially, it’s a new collage, with very little remaining of the original. BELOW: the BEFORE (left) and AFTER

“sotiris spatharis” day 1 / "bather at yialia" day 2 /  by Philip Tarlow

sotiris spatharis, 11 1/4 x 7 1/4” watercolor on arches paper, day 1

3:26 PM: in the late ‘60’s in athens, i met the great karaghiozis shadow puppeteer, sotiris spatharis. he took me to his athens workshop and we chatted while he worked on creating new figures. i shot quite a few photos of him, and today i was overwhelmed with the desire to make a painting. it’s a watercolor, 11 1/4x 7 1/4”, which i’ll continue work on tomorrow.

bather at yialia beach, 7 1/4 x 11 1/4” watercolor on arches watercolor paper

11:04 AM: this morning i got an early start and completed my new watercolor, bather at yialia beach, 7 1/4x 11 1/4”

judith aller plays Paganini / day 1 of “bather at yialia” /  by Philip Tarlow

day 1 of bather at yialai beach, 7 1/4x11 1/4” watercolor on arches watercolor paper

today i started a new watercolor for my summer exhibition in andros, of a nude bather on a rock at piso yialia beach on the island of andros. here’s how it looks on day one.

3:17 PM: i have a wonderful new friend, violinist judith aller. she found me online, and knew my Dad, about whom she had wonderful stories; things i never knew. we had a long call yesterday. here she is playin paganini. https://youtu.be/XgUPq5Ald94?si=rISYhdSRLOJ7TVeP

at Pithara, Andros / Tsaatan tribe /  by Philip Tarlow

3:43 PM: another watercolor today; this one was inspired by a photo i found from a period when we were leading seminars around the world. we took a group to andros, which i know well, and went up to pithara, a spectacular waterfall located in apikia, about a 10 minute walk from the road, through dense vegetation. the waterfall itself is not visible in the photo i worked from.

from androsguide.gr: “ Only if you walk, smell, bathe, experience this magical place, dismiss the waters and listen to the cicadas you are going to feel what cannot be easily described in words.”

at pithara, 11x7 3/8” watercolor on arches paper, 2/23/25

This young woman, belonging to the Tsaatan tribe in Mongolia, Central Asia, is riding a deer. She is one of 500 people considered the last reindeer herders in Mongolia.

The Dhuka people, also called the Tsaatan, are known as the "people with reindeer" in Mongolian. They are the last group in the world to ride reindeer. There are only a few hundred of them left, and it's believed fewer than 50 families still live this way, though no exact count exists.


bathers at yialia beach /  by Philip Tarlow

2:08 PM: today i made the second in my new series of small works on paper. this one is titled bathers at yialia beach, 11x7.5” on arches aquarelle paper. i used photos i had taken on our last visit to andros, one of which contains the male bather with the blue stripped shirt and the oher has the femail bather in the sea, on the lower right.

1st gouache for andros exhibition /  by Philip Tarlow

2:26 PM: i was invited to exhibit new works at a gallery in andros, greece. the date is yet to be determined. i decided to do a series of small works on paper for this exhibition, with subject matter from andros, an island i know very well, and other areas in greece. today i made the first in the series.

andros square, 10.5x11.25” gouache on paper