Coloratura (Sunset, Monday, 11 October 2010)

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

I don’t know very much about opera, but sunset tonight was so crazy I thought it could have used a great soprano to sing it. I had in mind, of course, Dame Joan Sutherland (1926–2010).