“watching geese,” 57.5x14.5” / a 2017 landscape on rice paper: 53x4 3/4” / a 2020 watercolor inspiration for 6/5/2025 ano kato / version / drinking my smoothie with "6/5/25 ano kato" / by Philip Tarlow

watching geese, 57.5x14.5” oil on portrait linen, as she looked at 3pm, following today’s work

2:53 PM: after taking care of various details this morning, i launched into watching geese, which was painted over an unsuccessful horizontal landscape composition i created as a commission from mikela for a specific area in our house.

i turned it into a vertical and created a study of Qian Xuan’s handscroll titled Wang Xizhi Watching Geese, painted ca. 1295, a handscroll in ink, color & gold on paper.

mikela watering, 11x15” watercolor on Ârches watercolor paper, coll. the artist

this is a 2020 watercolor i discovered yesterday, inspired by the same photo i used for 6/5/2025 ano kato.

drinking my morning smoothie with 6/5/25 ano kato

2017 landscape on rice paper, 53x4 3/4”