Some Assembly Required – Sunset, Wednesday, 26 October 2011

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

A Whole Wide Bunch (Sunset, Wednesday, 28 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, A WHOLE WIDE BUNCH (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

When my sister, as a little kid, thought she had a lot of something, she called it “a whole wide bunch.” Here I was interested in getting a whole wide bunch of sky.

The Substantial and the Insubstantial (Sunset, Tuesday, 27 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, THE SUBSTANTIAL AND THE INSUBSTANTIAL (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

The Color Gray Would Like to Renegotiate Its Contract (Sunset, Monday, 19 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, THE COLOR GRAY WOULD LIKE TO RENEGOTIATE ITS CONTRACT (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Sooner and Later (We All See Double Sometimes) (Sunset, Saturday, 17 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, SOONER AND LATER (WE ALL SEE DOUBLE SOMETIMES) (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

This is an amalgam of skies I glimpsed on my drive before sunset, when clouds were bright, and at sunset, when they were dark. (Someone forgot to tell the clouds it was sunset.) Title borrowed from Charlottesville band The Bloody Angle.

Too Much Rain Could Turn Anyone Into a Fauvist (Sunset, Tuesday, 6 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, TOO MUCH RAIN COULD TURN ANYONE INTO A FAUVIST (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.