She Knows There’s No Success Like Failure – Sunset, Monday, 1 February 2016

William Van Doren, SHE KNOWS THERE’S NO SUCCESS LIKE FAILURE. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on Arches watercolor block, 11 x 15.

Wherever she may have gone, she knows who “she” is — a follow-up to the painting for January 31st. As for the sky on Monday, it was a strange combination of grays, with light rain. One area of gray was a dirty spectral brown, another was dark blue. The painting started out with the spectral brown but immediately took on a life of its own. Title from Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit.”