sparse reflections painted over / by Philip Tarlow

sound of a flute series paintings on the east wall of my studio recently

sparse reflections painted over & flipped 180 degrees

1:43 PM: sparse reflections had become overloaded reflections, so I painted over it. yes, there were passages I was sorry to see go, but as a whole the composition was a little bit of everything and a lot of nothing. so it be gone!

now it looks more like sparse reflections. this one, like some of the others, had been stretched on what I later determined to be warped stretcher bars. so before I continue work on it and once it dries, I plan on re-stretching it on stretcher bars that are straight. that will likely be in 3-4 days. in the mean time, i’ve begun work on a new on, as yet untitled.

the image on the right was shot after painting over sparse reflections, and the canvas has been rotated so that what was previously the bottom of the composition is now on top.