7/4/2021 creek oil, 26 x 78 in. as it looked at the end of my painting day, after being scraped moments ago.
4:00 pm: ABOVE: the image you see didn’t meet my aesthetic, so I scraped it while it’s still wet, and will continue work/play tomorrow.
7/4/2021 creek oil, 26 x 78 in. as it looked at 3:22 PM
3:22 PM: this is a shot of the left 1/4 of the painting, which i’ve been working/playing on for the past few hours. ABOVE is a shot of the left 1/4 of the entire composition, which is still in process. these two figures are taken form a photo I shot of an opening last year at the gallery representing my work in denver: space gallery. more figures viewed from above will enter the composition and integrate with aspects of the creek-scape. I know not how, as yet.
the idea is to somehow integrate my ano kato series with my creek oils.
here’s the link to the ano kato series :
https://www.philiptarlow.com/best-left-unsaid
at work on 7/4/2021 creek oil at 2pm today
2:43 PM: I took a break from the two watercolor/collages to do some more work on the new 7/4/2021 creek oil, 26 x 78 in., on stretched quadruple primed french linen
afternoon thunderstorms forming at 1pm
12:38 PM: we’re expecting another round of thunderstorms in about 2 hours. this is great fro 2 reasons: it usually cools down the temperature by as much as 20°F in under an hour and secondly, we can use as much precip as we can get.
i’m working on 3 different paintings in rotation today; something you all know I love doing! I made more modifications to 6/30/2021 watercolor/collage and 7/4/2021 watercolor/collage. and i’m continuing work on the new, 26x x78 “ 7/4/2021 creek oil.
BELOW are the 2 watercolor/collages I made changes to. the previous version is always on the left.
at work this morning on 7/4/2021 creek oil
7:38 AM: it’s unusual, not to mention unheard of, fro me to make adjustments to paintings at 7am. but when i brought back these two watercolor/collages from the studio yesterday, they looked way too pale. what had seemed cool and interesting in my studio yesterday afternoon, looked like two washed out images when i got them back to the house. this is yet another gift in having my big, light, beautiful studio 500 ft. away from our house. as i sit here on our couch, looking out the south living room windows, i can make out the yellow north facing studio door through the pinon pines, and above it, the blue grey shpe of sisnaajini, or mt. blanca, one of the native american sacred peaks.
so getting back to the two watercolor/collages: 6/30/2021 watercolor/collage and 7/4/2021 watercolor/collage, i did more work on them last night and again this morning, using the colored pencils i have here in the house.
BELOW are comparative views of the two, before & after the changes i made using only colored pencils. yesterday afternoon versions are on the left.
