To the Windward of Lee (Sunset, Monday, Labor Day, 5 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, TO THE WINDWARD OF LEE (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Not sure what it really means to be to the “windward” of a [former] tropical storm, but ... works for me. Heavy rain just beginning.

With & Without Form (Sunset, Sunday, 4 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, WITH & WITHOUT FORM (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

The world seems at all times and in all respects both with and without form – re-formed at every moment.

Elegy in Clouds & Haze (Sunset, Saturday, 3 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, ELEGY IN CLOUDS & HAZE (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

The following, by the way, was the sunset 16 years ago tonight, near the beginning of the Moment & Horizon series. The vantage point is essentially the same, except that today the Blue Ridge was lost in haze and I included local Piney Mountain to the north.

William Theodore Van Doren, Sunset, 3 September 1995 (From Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 6 x 9.

Variations on Overcast (Sunset, Friday, 2 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, VARIATIONS ON OVERCAST (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

The View in Rose (Sunset, Thursday, 1 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, THE VIEW IN ROSE (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Meanwhile, Outside the Party (Sunset, Wednesday, 31 August 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, MEANWHILE, OUTSIDE THE PARTY (Sunset from Madison Mills, Madison County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

I wasn’t able to post last night because I was at a party out in Madison County, near Orange – at Woodberry Forest. Any inconvenience was more than compensated for by their enormous view of the horizon.