4:41 PM: the studio flood damage repair was completed this afternoon, and cleanup will happen tomorrow morning. that should give me more freedom to create new pieces unintrerrupted.
this is a photo shot during the period when i was creating my gaze series, in 2015. copy & paste the link below to view this series.
https://www.philiptarlow.com/gaze
some of them were inspired by vermeer’s faces. this one was inspired by one of the 1st c. fayum portraits. some maintain that these portraits were painted in egypt by descendants of ancient greek painters, whose work we have no visual record of. they survived because they were attached to egyptian mummies and buried in the warm, dry sand.mthey are part of the greco-roman, rather than the egyptian tradition, and transitioned into early byzantine art.
my mentor, yannis tsarouchis, introduced me to them during my 15 year stay in greece in the ‘60’s & ‘70’s.
with one of my just completed gaze series paintings in 2015
2:34 PM: mikela requested a series of about 8 drawings of people “doing stuff,” to include in our Actionlab educational product. here are sketches for the first two, in colored pencil and crayon on paper.
