Solitude

Quieting the mind is essential to creative exploration.  The continual chatter of my "to do" list bounces around my head as I take care of this and that.  When I finally eek out a bit of time to enter my studio and paint I first put on the music, get out my supplies, fill up the water jar, and begin the ritual that slides me into the zone.  It always amazes me how once I start the ritual how lost I can become in the process of painting.  How calming the process becomes to my inner self.  
The painting I am posting today is called Solitude.  It is a 6"x6" acrylic on hardboard of Lake Superior North Shore in northern Minnesota.  The sun is low and the horizon is lost in the distance as water and sky meld together.
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