Crossing the James – Sunset, Friday, 29 November 2013

Monday, December 9, 2013 at 02:53PM
BVD in Blue Ridge, James River, John Lynch Bridge, Lynchburg.William Van Doren, Sunset Paintings, clouds, landscape, mountains, painting, skyscape, sunset

William Van Doren, COLD WAVE. Sunset from Lynchburg, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Based on a glance out the car window crossing the John Lynch Bridge into Lynchburg, Va. I had a sunset all sketched out, from a few minutes earlier, riding in the car up in Amherst County ... then I saw this, for only a second or two, and my sketch was just a few lines. But this was the one.

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