October and Smoke (Sunset, Friday, 1 October 2010)

Friday, October 1, 2010 at 08:35PM
BVD in Blue Ridge, Sunset Paintings, indian summer

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

In fact it’s not smoke (I’m pretty sure, after two days of heavy rain), but the haze in an otherwise clear sky looked like distant fire and seemed to promise Indian Summer to come.

Article originally appeared on The Very Rich Hours (http://www.theveryrichhours.com/).