Sunset, Sunday, 25 April 2010

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

A small wandering rain cloud directly overhead, others on the horizon.

Sunset, Saturday, 24 April 2010

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

Sunset, Friday, 23 April 2010

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

Sunset was sighted through a vine of climbing flowers. The vine was open to the sun, the sun was climbing through the hours.

Laura Owen Sutherland

Sunset, Thursday, 22 April 2010

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

The sun congratulated Earth on its day.

Sunset, Wednesday, 21 April 2010

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

If today were a novel, the sunset wouldn’t be the ending but the chapter in which the strange salmon and purple light changes everything.

Sunset, Tuesday, 20 April 2010

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

What was a blue day goes down in blue clouds behind blue mountains. The sky drains color and sounds fall except for a few birds nearby and a distant highway. Here green and shadow, and a gathering cool dark heavy substance of air clinging to the foreground.