Sunset, Thursday, 19 August 2010

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

Sunset, Tuesday, 17 August 2010

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

Text for this sunset could be The Flaming Lips, “Assassination of the Sun” – which I heard about an hour before this (dj’d by Wayne Coyne). I was going to add, not taking the lyrics too literally, but then, how could you?

Sunset, Monday, 16 August 2010

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

Sunset, Saturday, 14 August 2010

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

Skyline Drive Sunset, Tuesday, 10 August 2010

William Van Doren, Sunset from Skyline Drive, Rockingham County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

In a sense this is the opposite of my usual perspective, which is looking up at the Blue Ridge. Here I’m on the ridge, at 3125 feet, looking down (at the Shenandoah Valley). On the way to Big Meadows, below Lewis Mountain. In the haze the ridge of Massanutten Mountain was barely distinguishable.

Sunset, Friday, 6 August 2010

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

August is old summer, cumulative, thick, the sun standing, somehow blazing in the haze without an aura, a hot ghost.