Sunset, Wednesday, 19 May 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

Fogbank against the Blue Ridge.

Good Morning (19 May 2010)

The wave against the coast and light on your face. Clouds at sea, words in your voice. You dreamed, and the ocean dreamed with me that it was only you.

Sunset, Tuesday, 18 May 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

Smoked Duck on the Red Ball Express

William Theodore Van Doren. Smoked Duck on the Red Ball Express. 2000. Oil on wood panel, 11 x 14.

I just got this painting back from a long-term loan and was very happy to have a chance to photograph it. I’ve alternated between simply calling it “Untitled” and naming it as shown here, but the title phrase came to me as soon as I finished the painting and never seems to want to go away. Part of a series keyed to red, crimson, orange and pink that I suspect isn’t over yet.

Silver Dish

It’s been raining, the skies a great basin, basically convex, a bowl of water overflowing or perhaps filled with holes. But the sky is lifting, if only for the moment, and in one corner, through trees, gray and bright, and here the bowl is turned the other way. I can look up into the bowl, and its breakfast of light.

Sunset, Monday, 17 May 2010 (Alternate Version)

William Theodore Van Doren. Bright Green Field, Dark Green Woods, Bright Gray Rain. Oil on watercolor block, 9 x 12.