Into the Woods – Sunset, Tuesday, 30 December 2014

William Van Doren, INTO THE WOODS. Sunset from Preddy Creek Trails Park, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on canvas, 24 x 30.

Fields, Mist, Trees, Rain – Sunset, Wednesday, 28 August 2013

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

Live Oak

William Van Doren, pencil, 9 x 12, 2013.

A dead tree too awkwardly placed to cut down for firewood. A tall oak leaning, dead these two years, which on falling would have its choice of electric lines to take down. Might be enough wood for a month. But a dead tree that will just have to go on living.

Rain, Trees, and Piney Mountain – Sunset, Monday, 12 November 2012

William Van Doren, RAIN, TREES, AND PINEY MOUNTAIN. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Trees and Rain – Sunset, Thursday, 18 October 2012

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

At the End of May

The woods are deepening into their manifold greens — mature summer green and bright new partytime green, raw cut-over green and distant atmospheric Watteau green, blue cedar berry green, black soil green and indigo bunting twilight silhouette. Each tree’s canopy entails a volume of colorless pure colorspace, trees growing red green, orange green, and breathing out of green blue sky.