yet ANOTHER rework of "passing through" !!?? “in flight” continued today but as yet unresolved /  by Philip Tarlow

11:53: while listening to a series of BEETLES classics on youtube, i made more changes and improvements to passing though. here she is.

so how, how did she emerge? Dunno, but my best guess is that, over time ripening has occured; soul ripening. and along with that, the eyes see what they didn’t used to and the hand with the brush moves to the soul’s music, boom, batta boom, bam, batta bam.

know that yesterday my voice therapist recommended singing daily for 10 minutes. so i put on The Beetles on youtube, began singing along, did some more on passing through, …..

passing through, 12x14” oil on portrait linen, moments ago

6:36 PM: i did a bit more on in flight today, but, as small as it is, it needs more…on second thought, maybe it’s resolved!

yet another rework of "passing through" /  by Philip Tarlow

passing through, 12x14” oil on portrait linen, as she looked moments ago, at 12:30pm

12:36 PM: when i gazed at this painting upon entering my studio this morning, it wasn’t quite doing it for me. i just now completed yet another rework, and i’m waiting till tomorrow to evaluate. so far i think it rocks!

rework of “Passing Through” / man walking /  by Philip Tarlow

passing through, 12 x 14 1/2” oil on portrait linen, at the end of my painting day today

1:37 PM: before going out on our trail walk, i scrubbed out man waking, revealing passing through underneath, which i reworked and greatly improved, so that it has become one of my better recent paintings, despite it’s small size. reads really well from a distance, and confirms what i already knew: keep at it until you find the magic.

man walking, 12x14 1/2” oil on portrait linen

11:07 AM: i revised man walking, 12x14 1/2” this morning, which i painted over passing through.

UPDATING “passing through” and STarTING “IN FLIGHT’‘ travolta dances / next exhibition title: “Just Below the Groove” /  by Philip Tarlow

passing through, 12x14 1/2” oil on portrait linen

in flight, 12x14 1/2” oil on linen on day one

this morning i continued work on passing through, which i started yesterday. it‘s now resolved and will be stretched as soon as i order the stretcher bars.

i started work on in flight, which has the same dimensions as passing through: 12x14 1/2” i’ll continue tomorrow morning.

Pulp Fiction Legendary Dance Scene (John Travolta + Uma Thurman) click on the linkbelow and watch travolta dance

Boxoffice Movie Scenes


“passing through” / HIGHLY recommended Matisse bio!! /  by Philip Tarlow

passing through, 12×14 1/2” oil on xtra fine portrait linen

2:29 PM: thjis afternoon i started work on the first of the seven 14x15 1/2” pieces of portrait linen i discovered while cleaning up a few days ago. titled passing through, it was inspired by a photo i shot at least 5 years ago while looking down at wlking figures, from an upper area of a mall, likely in denver. it may be complete; i’ll know tomorrow morning when i have a fresh look at it.

i am re-reading this wonderful biography of Matisse, which I highly recommend!

"taiko 1" modifications tODAY /  by Philip Tarlow

taiko 1, 7x11 1/2” mixed media on arches paper; as she looked at the end of my painting day today

9:19 AM: when i brought it back to the house and looked at it carefully, taiko 1 seemed far to busy and without a central focus for the wandering eye. so this morning, as soon as mikela left for school and while we were chatting during her drive, i went into the entire upper quadrant of taiko 1 with a black crayon, allowing the flower on the upper right and the karagiozis figure in the center to POP.

"pink & green dream," 7x11 1/2" /  by Philip Tarlow

1:29 PM: today morning i made a new painting: pink & green dream, 7x11 1/2” mixed media on arches paper. it was much more complex until, towards the end of my time working on it, i collaged some cutout pieces of white paper with black ink marks, and it found it’s identity.

PINK & GREEN DREAM, 7x11 1/2” 3/31/26

"taiko 1" continued today /  by Philip Tarlow

2:55 PM: today i continued work on taiko 1, transforming it to the degree that yesterdays version is mostly collaged and painted over. two female figures have replaced the original taiko drummer figure, a large flower now appears in the upper left and green leaves below.

taiko 1, 11 1/2x 7 1/2” watercolor, gouache, colored pencil & collage on arches paper, at the end of my painting day

BELOW: yesterdays version on the left