Download (Sunset, Wednesday, 8 June 2011)

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

Epilog (Sunset, Tuesday, 7 June 2011)

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

Often not only the skies change, but the titles as well. (This of course can be very aggravating.) At first the murky clouds in the oncoming heat and humidity somehow struck me as a Venusian blanket. Then this resolved into streaks and stripes of yellow and dull violet ... “Planet Waves,” I thought. A few minutes later I happened to look up – it was either “Epilog” or “Bouillabaisse.”

Air Show (Sunset, Monday, 6 June 2011)

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

Doubling the Sun (Sunset, Saturday, 4 June 2011)

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

The “two” suns were rather fortunate, since I was also commissioned to paint another version (which I’ve just done, on wood panel) for a wedding gift. As fate would have it, the wedding I was asked to commemorate took place just a few miles further down my road ... so what I witnessed really was “their” sunset.

Door No. 3 (Sunset, Friday, 3 June 2011)

William Van Doren, DOOR NO. 3 (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

By waiting past the initial stage – a brilliant sunburst and dirty-bright ice white clouds – and then sunset proper – old gold and purple – I came to the twilight, which seemed to have more of the feeling of day’s end. And which brought the moon into the picture.

Belle de Jour (Sunset, Thursday, 2 June 2011)

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

I think I’ve finally picked up on the (possible) fact that search engines don’t much like it if all you give them is an image and a title, but sometimes that’s all there is. We will endeavor to be a little more talkative.