Sunset, Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 06:48PM
BVD in A Painting A Day, Lauren Schlesinger McMullen, Sunset Paintings, meditation, painting process, snow

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

Snow started an hour before sunset. I heard today from an artist in northern California, Lauren McMullen, who uses a formal method of meditation to still her ‘critical mind’. I don’t do that, but I know getting to that open or free state of mind is important. Among many things that work for me is watching the snow as it falls.

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