Heat Map. Sunset, Thursday, 22 July 2010

William Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

The kind of heat we’re having, in a non–air conditioned farmhouse, can make a painter want to attack the canvas without thinking, without waiting, without mixing, without preparing – without caring. It may not be quite the same as the Zen of no-mind, but it’s the Zen du jour for sure.

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