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Since I had to explain this to a fellow artist on Twitter, maybe I’d better explain that I’m not “apologizing for the painting,” just having fun with the Laurel & Hardy catchphrase.
William Van Doren, Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Watercolor on Arches, 16x20.
While going through my archive of thousands of past sunsets and sunrises (meaning, the stacks and shelves of actual paintings) on behalf of a collector, I ran across one of a very few I’ve done in watercolor (almost all are oil paintings). I’d forgotten about this one. According to my notes, it was 37°F.