Just Before the Rain. Sunset, Tuesday, 13 July 2010

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

Sunset, Friday, 9 July 2010

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

All the sound and motion of a storm without much of the rainfall. Walking up the dirt road and looking for the sunset I was almost able to walk between the drops.

Sunset, Monday, 28 June 2010

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

Shining there, raining here. Strange brown, violet, yellow and green tones in the gray. The first time I’m aware of seeing sheets of rain white and gold. Behind me, a full rainbow on robin’s-egg blue. 

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

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

Still, hot, close, with a few raindrops.

Two Suns Setting in a Thunderstorm (Sunset, Thursday, 3 June 2010)

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

About 15 minutes apart.