North Light (Sunset, Monday, 20 June 2011)

Monday, June 20, 2011 at 10:02PM
BVD in Piney Mountain, Solstice & Equinox, Sunset Paintings, clouds, landscape, skyscape

William Theodore Van Doren, NORTH LIGHT (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

With multiple blankets of cloud draped everywhere else, I sighted even farther north than the near-solstice sun would normally dictate, over nearby Piney Mountain.

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