Sunset, Saturday, 2 May 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 08:48PM
BVD in Sunset Paintings

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.The sky borrows from the ground tonight, using asphaltum and, as a roughly 50% ingredient of one of the grays, transparent earth yellow.

It seemed like a mineral sort of day – much warmer earlier, when the sky was a superheated quartz-water mix, flat white, with storm shards piled on the horizon.

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In addition to paintings listed as “recently added,” two more have now been archived for 2008, including the sunset from one year ago tonight.

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