Elegy in Clouds & Haze (Sunset, Saturday, 3 September 2011)

Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 09:23PM
BVD in A Painting A Day, Blue Ridge, Piney Mountain, Sunset Paintings, William Theodore Van Doren, landscape, painting process, skyscape, sunset

William Theodore Van Doren, ELEGY IN CLOUDS & HAZE (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

The following, by the way, was the sunset 16 years ago tonight, near the beginning of the Moment & Horizon series. The vantage point is essentially the same, except that today the Blue Ridge was lost in haze and I included local Piney Mountain to the north.

William Theodore Van Doren, Sunset, 3 September 1995 (From Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 6 x 9.

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