Sunset, Sunday, 4 July 2010

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

We filmed this painting from start to finish for a possible presentation later on Kickstarter.

Sunset, Friday, 18 June 2010 (Second Version)

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

Sunset, Friday, 18 June 2010

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

With the solstice just three days away, this is about as far north as I ever see the sun setting along the mountains here.

Sunset, Rain & Storms, Wednesday, 16 June 2010

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

Storms skirting us on all sides, with sudden brief falls of rain, and at times the sky was ragged, with clouds in Tiepolo-tall perspective reaching way up and angels and whatnot sitting atop cumulonimbus. Just before sunset, everything closed up again and turned an ominous pallor of brown-yellow-gray, and then a sort of violet-yellow-gray, and I wasn’t sure what I would paint. Started painting.

Sunset, Saturday, 5 June 2010 (Fourth Version)

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

Sunset, Saturday, 5 June 2010 (Third Version)

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