Cul-de-Jour (Sunset, Saturday, 12 March 2011)

William Van Doren, CUL-DE-JOUR (Sunset from York Road near Northern Parkway, Baltimore, Md.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.In north Baltimore, looking across York Road where Nicoll Avenue ends in a cul-de-sac.

Back in Baltimore (Sunset, Friday, 11 March 2011)

William Van Doren, BACK IN BALTIMORE (Sunset from St. Paul Street & University Parkway, Baltimore, Md.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

From my brother Steve’s room on the eighth floor of Union Memorial Hospital, after his successful back surgery. The view is up University Parkway toward the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, Marylander apartments at far left.

Note in Transit

I’m moving around up in the Baltimore area since yesterday and unable to shoot and post paintings; I should be catching up on the sunset series starting Monday. Yesterday’s sunset was the view out the window of a hospital room (not mine), near my alma mater, Johns Hopkins; tonight’s should be a view I’ve painted several times before, near York Road and Northern Parkway. It’s always interesting, the deciding what to do with all the buildings ...

What Goes On Outside (During a Meeting) (Sunset, Thursday, 10 March 2011)

William Van Doren, WHAT GOES ON OUTSIDE (DURING A MEETING) (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

For my meeting-mates, artist/designer Michael Fitts, photographer Robert Llewellyn, and author Preston Thomas.

Saturated (Sunset, Wednesday, 9 March 2011)

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

Mingled (Sunset, Tuesday, 8 March 2011)

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