Sunset, Tuesday, 16 March 2010

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

Twilight. The clouds on the horizon really were orange-pink, and the blown-apart contrails that sort of violet pink, and ... perhaps that’s enough about how things “really” were.

Sunset, Monday, 15 March 2010

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

Out today in the world it was clay and gray, brown leaf and dark needle, the curled beech papers along with a scattering of little blackjack oaks the last old foliage about ready to drop, and the woods as open as they’ll ever be. Every year there must be a moment when beechy parchments fall and new greens shoot, but that’s a secret ceremony I’ve never managed to witness.

Sunset, Sunday, 14 March 2010

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

Daylight Saving Time. But of course. Saving daylight is what we do here, every night of the year.

This view is turned toward the northwest, much like last night’s.

Sunset, Saturday, 13 March 2010

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

I cheated tonight’s perspective slightly north, or right, almost to a summertime sunset horizon, since that’s where everything seemed to be happening.

Sunset, Thursday, 11 March 2010

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

Not raining ... yet.

Sunset, Wednesday, 10 March 2010

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