Rivermont Collage (Sunset, Monday, 12 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, RIVERMONT COLLAGE (Sunset from Rivermont Avenue, Lynchburg, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

A loose composite of the sequence of skies and mountains I saw while driving along Rivermont Avenue in Lynchburg. I’m very happy I didn’t hurt anyone in the street while I looked between and over buildings, around and through trees, etc.

The World Has Many Different Ways of Changing (Sunset, Sunday, 11 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, THE WORLD HAS MANY DIFFERENT WAYS OF CHANGING (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Wideout (Sunset, Saturday, 10 September 2011)

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

Cold Blue Clouds for a Warm Blue Day (Sunset, Friday, 9 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, COLD BLUE CLOUDS FOR A WARM BLUE DAY (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Today was indeed beautiful. The light, after all the rain, was not like light but something like a sphere of clarity.

The World Is Quicker Than the Eye (Sunset, Thursday, 8 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, THE WORLD IS QUICKER THAN THE EYE (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

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

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.