Improvised Solar Color Wheel – Sunset, Tuesday, 1 July 2014
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 at 01:35PM
BVD in Sunset Paintings, Sunsetology, William Van Doren, color, painting, skyscape, sunset

William Van Doren, IMPROVISED SOLAR COLOR WHEEL. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on Arches, 17 x 23.

My sketch of this sunset included some improbable color notes for the area around the sun: “flat hot yellow gray (lilac) extends way out” and then “could be sepia + violet + (warm) white + yellow with optical bands of green.” (Meaning, I saw green every time I blinked.) And as the sun went down behind the mountains, there was deeper gold and violet.

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