Self-taught visionary artist. Painted every sunset for 11 years through 2016. Bio here. William Van Doren art also on Facebook and Instagram, and art prints on Pixels.com/Fine Art America. Author of the non-holiday book 47 Minutes on Christmas Eve. Coming in 2019, Into the Sunset: Paintings and Notes from 4,000 Nights.
William Theodore Van Doren, Ballpoint pen on scrap paper, 3 x 3.
I couldn’t paint or post last night – had to go out as part of our search for a new sunset, i.e., another place for us to live (long story!) – so my painting started life as a ballpoint sketch on part of the back of a bank receipt, roughly 3 by 3 inches. The cryptic notations – flat blue, wh[ite] cirrus, g[ray]-blue, etc. – help me bring back the moment. Scanner picked up crumpled folds and some ink from the other side but I’m pretty sure you can’t make out the fabulous balance ...
Sketch for “Bold Face” (Wednesday, 6 July 2011)
I couldn’t paint or post last night – had to go out as part of our search for a new sunset, i.e., another place for us to live (long story!) – so my painting started life as a ballpoint sketch on part of the back of a bank receipt, roughly 3 by 3 inches. The cryptic notations – flat blue, wh[ite] cirrus, g[ray]-blue, etc. – help me bring back the moment. Scanner picked up crumpled folds and some ink from the other side but I’m pretty sure you can’t make out the fabulous balance ...