continued work on "gained vision L" and a 2020 ? oil i found in my storage / by Philip Tarlow

2:41 PM: today is my first day back in the studio. although we got back monday evening, yesterday was devoted to organizing, unpacking, etc.

so, after the obligatory futzing around, i dove back in to gained vision I. it was a tricky thing to do, as it was pretty cool after i last worked on it, but there was too much white, and our friends dan & bryna agreed with that assesment when i brought it with us to carbondale & showed it to them.

so i did quite a bit today, while allowing some of the white spaces to continue breathing. with what i did today, i was reminded of gorky. his best compositions, while they were heavily worked on, scraped over & repainted,

squeezing out the colors from the tubes this morning

gained vision on 6/21 23

gained vision I as it looked following today’s changes

2017 tarlow study of a painting by archile gorky

untitled creekscape on 2 16x20” canvases i just discovered in my storage, most likely painted in 2020