Sunset, Tuesday, 23 March 2010

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

Sunset, Sunday, 21 March 2010

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

As part of the unearthing (or, to abuse a Wikipedia term, disambiguation) of past writings from sunsets where they had been ... earthed ... or ambiguated ... I’ve made last October’s post on Edgar Allan Poe’s “Island of the Fay” and a set of digressions based on Poe’s “Tale of the Ragged Mountains” into separate entries.

Sunset, Saturday, 20 March 2010

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

Sunset, Friday, 19 March 2010

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

So I’m waiting for the drive-in teller at the credit union to send back my receipt, when I look up and realize, Damn, we sure do have some nice streetlamps here at our credit union ...

Ballpoint on CVS Chunky Pad, 4 x 6.I decided streetlamps that could almost be Parisian were probably a worthwhile expense. 

This by the way fulfills a prediction I made months ago that I would eventually post something drawn, not on the wonderful Moleskine notebook with some exquisite drawing instrument, but on my equally trusty CVS Chunky Pad, with the ever-ready Bic Velocity ballpoint.

Sunset, Thursday, 18 March 2010

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

As part of a process of resorting and redefining the site, I’ve begun to separate some of the longer entries or mini-essays from the sunsets they once accompanied, partly with the idea of making them easier to find in the Index to Past Entries. If even I can’t remember what sunset dates certain essays or prose pieces came with, I doubt you will. For example, “Trees and Sunsets” and “Thoreau: What Did the Sunset Say?” from last May, are now stand-alone pieces. I’ll be continuing with this process over the next several days. In addition, I’ve eliminated the Notes in the Margin section and brought all of those entries into this main journal sequence; they can be found in the Index as well.

Also today I’ve made two more paintings available as prints: “The Red Sofa” and “Bastille Day Twilight.”

Sunset, Wednesday, 17 March 2010

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

A note on my previous post. The image of light being able to move fabric aside was inspired in part by the draperies of the disciples in Salvador Dali’s “The Sacrament of the Last Supper.”

Today of course everything’s supposed to be green. On my wonderful upside-down (southern hemisphere–oriented) wall map, the green countries include the U.S., France, Ukraine, Venezuela, Argentina, Namibia, Australia ... and Ireland, although Eire gets an olive shade rather than the vibrant green assigned to these other countries. Of course I must put in a plug for “The Green Barn.” But above all, because it’s essentially what I paint, I will cite time itself, ever green.