Last Sunset Standing (Sunset, Thursday, 23 June 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, LAST SUNSET STANDING (second version)(Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

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

As sunset approached I was at a small gathering where I was delivering a commissioned painting; we watched the sky and discussed the colors, speculating on the painting to come. An hour later, almost everything we’d observed had become obsolete. This was “last” in a series of quite different skies.

Update on Friday, June 24, 2011 at 11:04AM by BVD

I wasn’t very happy with the first version that I painted last night, so I’ve done a new one this morning (the one on top). The sky was so strange that I may not have quite gotten it in either case, but ... I feel better now!