Sunset, Monday, 19 April 2010

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

Sunset, Sunday, 18 April 2010

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

Sunset, Saturday, 17 April 2010

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

Today light seemed like a quantity and I couldn’t remember when I’d seen so much.

Sunset, Friday, 16 April 2010

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

Tonight’s quiet sky marks the one-year anniversary of the day this blog went live with daily postings of the sunset, along with quite a few other things (458 entries so far).

(For those new here, the sunset and sunrise paintings themselves began in 1995 and number over 3,300.)

While I prepare for some major developments to come, I’ve been tagging and categorizing past entries, working from the start toward the present. So far this tagging project has made it into early September 2009, if you want to go back and see how it works.

One of the most important changes here, at some point, will involve offering individual original sunset paintings to collectors for the first time.

Sunset, Thursday, 15 April 2010

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

The fragmentary writing of the clouds translates finally into twilight.

Sunset, Wednesday, 14 April 2010

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

At 12:27 p.m. the sun finally came out, and ever since then the young green leaves have been encouraging the new blue sky.