BATTLE...or MEDITATION? | My State of Mind While Painting

Artist James Gurney uses gouache to paint a stream cutting through a snow-filled forest landscape. As he paints, he considers the state of mind he experiences while painting. Topics: What modern neuroscience teaches us about visual perception. Winston Churchill’s ‘battle’ metaphor, and some of Lao Tzu's ideas from the Tao-Te Ching. WATERCOLOR AND GOUACHE: Anthraquinone blue: https://amzn.to/2WrK1h8 Indian red: https://tinyurl.com/bdxs2mz Yellow ochre: https://amzn.to/2SfXc2O Titanium white: https://amzn.to/2XSOld4 VIDEO TUTORIALS: "Gouache in the Wild" (Stream or Download on Gumroad): https://gumroad.com/l/gouache "Color in Practice: Black, White, and Complements (Gumroad): https://gurneyjourney.gumroad.com/l/color1 "Color in Practice" (DVD) https://jamesgurney.com/products/color-in-practice “How to Make a Sketch Easel” (Download): https://gurneyjourney.gumroad.com/l/sketcheasel “How to Make a Sketch Easel” (DVD): https://jamesgurney.com/products/how-to-make-a-sketch-easel “Watercolor in the Wild” https://gumroad.com/l/watercolor "Casein in the Wild" https://gumroad.com/l/casein "Flower Painting in the Wild" https://gumroad.com/l/flowerpainting BLOG POSTS WITH MORE GEAR INFO: Gouache Materials List: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2016/07/gouache-materials-list.html Watercolor Materials: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2014/08/watercolor-in-wild-materials.html BOOKS BY JAMES GURNEY: 1. Color and Light: https://jamesgurney.com/products/color-and-light-a-guide-for-the-realist-painter-signed-by-james-gurney 2. Imaginative Realism: https://jamesgurney.com/products/imaginative-realism-how-to-paint-what-doesnt-exist 3. Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time: https://jamesgurney.com/products/dinotopia-a-land-apart-from-time-signed OTHER OFFICIAL SITES Gurney's official website: http://jamesgurney.com/site/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamesgurneyart/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/GurneyJourney/ GurneyJourney Blog: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/ Facebook group "Sketch Easel Builders": https://www.facebook.com/groups/403006076777641/?source_id=121255121263267 CAMERA: Canon M6: (time lapse, video, and stills): https://amzn.to/2J4RTgX Rode Video GoII Mics: https://tinyurl.com/msak3ver QUOTES BY WINSTON CHURCHILL “Painting is complete as a distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body more entirely absorbs the mind.” “Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.” BOOKS 1. "Painting as a Pastime: by Winston S. Churchill: https://tinyurl.com/zxypmpw2 -- Online source for Churchill audio: https://archive.org/details/Winston_Churchill 2. "Tao-Te Ching" by Lao Tzu (Laozi): https://tinyurl.com/yy7ntxe4 3. "Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain" https://tinyurl.com/7e9a2nft 4. "The Case Against Reality" by Donald Hoffman. https://tinyurl.com/2p3yxv8t NEUROSCIENCE AND PERCEPTION Podcasts: 1. Donald Hoffman with ZDoggMD: https://youtu.be/dd6CQCbk2ro 2. Jeff Hawkins with Sam Harris: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/255-future-intelligence 3. Robin Carhart-Harrris with Sean Carroll: https://tinyurl.com/44ndud6u 4. Lisa Feldman Barrett with Tom Bilyeu: https://youtu.be/Tv1kRqzg0AQ Music by Chris Haugen. https://youtu.be/fnxd-Ye7rwo Some of the links above are affiliate links, for which I make a small commission at no cost to you.