Burning Bridge (Sunset, Tuesday, 9 November 2010)

William Van Doren, BURNING BRIDGE (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Title derived from a song by Jack Scott.

Meets the Eye (Sunset, Thursday, 9 September 2010)

William Van Doren, Meets the Eye (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

This particular sky lasted almost no time, and by twilight proved to have been based largely on smoke and mirrors, perhaps even literally for all I know. As I was taping the painting to the wall to shoot it, the sky’s evanescentness (I would say evanescence but it doesn’t feel right) went well with the arguably terribly underrated “Goodbye Baby” by Jack Scott and the arguably terribly overwrought (it depends on who you are when you encounter it) “The Last Time I Saw Her Face” by Gordon Lightfoot. Anyhow, the sky was gone quickly but it left its mark.