Bright Spots (Sunset, Monday, 27 June 2011)

Monday, June 27, 2011 at 09:51PM
BVD in Blue Ridge, Sunset Paintings, clouds, painting process, skyscape

William Theodore Van Doren, BRIGHT SPOTS (Sunset/Twilight from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

It’s possible that an ancient tube of slightly separated zinc white – the only white I had left – was responsible for the thin, almost rubbed texture of this painting, but whatever it was, it seemed to work for this particular sky.

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