Sunset, Thursday, 17 June 2010

William Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

Sunset, Rain & Storms, Wednesday, 16 June 2010

William Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

Storms skirting us on all sides, with sudden brief falls of rain, and at times the sky was ragged, with clouds in Tiepolo-tall perspective reaching way up and angels and whatnot sitting atop cumulonimbus. Just before sunset, everything closed up again and turned an ominous pallor of brown-yellow-gray, and then a sort of violet-yellow-gray, and I wasn’t sure what I would paint. Started painting.

Sunset, Monday, 14 June 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

Sunset, Saturday, 12 June 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

Trailing ruins of thunderstorms. This was a perfectly reasonable gray sky until the last minute.

Sunset, Friday, 11 June 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

Dark limbs above me in the edge of the woods reach higher as the sun falls, breathe in the heat here and breathe out something like a condensation, the almost invisible blue summer evening haze, humid and cool, a shadow, a form of light gathering on the ground.

Sunset, Thursday, 10 June 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.