Sunset, Wednesday, 28 June 1995

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 4 x 6.

This weird little thing is a one-of-a-kind entry in the Book of Days. Below the date, my note on the back says “Imaginary – sky was completely gray.”

I believe the sky that night was a seemingly uniform overcast, covering even the mountains; I know for sure that I didn’t yet know what to do in that case. This, then, comes just before my acceptance of the idea that I’d paint sunset skies no matter what they were like – that this wasn’t a matter of “painting sunsets” but of painting the sky at sunset.