day one of 1/19/26 oil, 38x24” oil on xtra fine portrait linen
3:13 PM: i started work this afternoon on 1/19/26 oil. i felt the urge to use lighter colors and to allow the composition to create itself, if that makes sense to you. it felt new, so i stopped when that urge faded and i’ll see hwere i’m at in the morning.
11:56 AM: this 16x10” painting in egg tempera on board was created in 1979; the last year of my 15 year stay in greece. it was painted in my studio on the island of andros. for much of my work during that period i used egg tempera, with powdered pigments i purchased at the athens art supply store. skouloudis was well known in the capital town of chora; a very sweet guy, from whose shop we purchased a lot of our food supplies.
this was, by the way, probably the last year that i signed my name tarlow. from 1980 on i’ve been using my initials.
