Cheshire Apparition (Sunset, Wednesday, 27 April 2011)

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

You can barely see it – I could barely see it – but way up in the sky, between storms (again), there was an opening of dim remote blue. It lasted only seconds before the rains rolled back in.

Between Storms (Sunset, Tuesday, 26 April 2011)

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

Shroud (Sunset, Friday, 22 April 2011)

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

Before Me the Deluge (Sunset, Saturday, 16 April 2011)

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

Hail Sunset (Sunset, Tuesday, 12 April 2011)

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

Thunder, lightning, heavy rain and hail, at sunset.

Misty Mountain Hop (Sunset, Saturday, 9 April 2011)

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

Rain starting at sunset, with clouds over little nearby Piney Mountain.