Following the Blue Ridge North in the Rain – Sunset, Thursday, 25 September 2014

William Van Doren, FOLLOWING THE BLUE RIDGE NORTH IN THE RAIN. Sunset from Albemarle, Greene, Madison, and Culpeper Counties, Va. Oil on canvas, 18 x 24.

Along the Rapidan

William Van Doren, ALONG THE RAPIDAN. Pencil on paper, 8 x 9.5, 2012.

Meanwhile, Outside the Party (Sunset, Wednesday, 31 August 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, MEANWHILE, OUTSIDE THE PARTY (Sunset from Madison Mills, Madison County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

I wasn’t able to post last night because I was at a party out in Madison County, near Orange – at Woodberry Forest. Any inconvenience was more than compensated for by their enormous view of the horizon.

Blue Ridges (Sunset, Saturday, 26 February 2011)

William Van Doren, BLUE RIDGES (Sunset from Madison Mills, Madison County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

I was standing, finishing a sketch of this when my friend I hadn’t seen since 30 years ago in L.A. drove up and gave me a lift to the gallery, where she toured the exhibit. The show, Moment & Horizon: The 365 Sunsets of 2010, is open this afternoon and all day tomorrow, its final day.

Showtime (Sunset, Friday, 14 January 2011)

William Van Doren, SHOWTIME (Sunset from Shelby, Madison County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Sunset, Saturday, 1 May 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Madison Mills, Madison County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

Sketched at Woodberry Forest School just before we went in to see the Brent Cirves and Michael Johnson musical adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.”