"the miracle" / day 2 of “4/22/25 ano kato” / by Philip Tarlow

1:03 PM: after working more on the miracle, i continued work on 4/22/25 ano kato, which i started yesterday with a colored pencil drawing. it, too is 32x36” and i’m curious to see if and how i integrate all those figures into one unified composition while maintining a lot of the white space.

day 2 of 4/22/25 ano kato, 32x36” oil on porrtrait linen

the miracle, 32x36” oil on portrait linen, as she looked today at noon

11:38 AM: i arrived in the studio very early, at 7:20 AM, which is when mikela had to leave for school. while i was prepared and ready to work on a new painting, i was drawn back in to the miracle! i made a number of modifications, and i’ll need a day or so to evaluate what i did.

so now maybe i can finally get to work on 4/22/25 ano kato!

BELOW: the miracle as she looked yesterday, on the left, and today