Reach/Retreat (Sunset, Wednesday, 8 September 2010)

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

Comments

[Sarah]

I like how the mountain line is floating -- like the earth is simply superimposed on the sky. (I guess you could paint that mountian profile in your sleep, huh?)

[BVD]

Thanks - and - Well, yes, and it's a good thing because it's gotten so much harder to see because of the woods in the distance. I have to go up and down the "driveway" every single day without exception to see the sunset and where it is on the mountains and their color. (This is sort of described in my post of February 2nd, which was an odd time to be writing about the woods ...)