Tweets Illustrated: Young Pines

William Van Doren, pencil, 5 x 7.

The tweet itself can be found here.

Oakfall (Sunset, Friday, 3 December 2010)

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

Just before sunset I felled a large white oak, dead of course, for firewood. It struck me that the day gone by could provide fuel much like the fallen tree, except the day is never entirely consumed.

The Row of Trees (Sunset, Friday, 24 September 2010)

William Van Doren, THE ROW OF TREES (Sunset from Hanover, Anne Arundel County, Md.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Green Leaves in September

Green leaves in September in bright sun hang, so many pieces of glass.

Sunset, Friday, 11 June 2010

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

Dark limbs above me in the edge of the woods reach higher as the sun falls, breathe in the heat here and breathe out something like a condensation, the almost invisible blue summer evening haze, humid and cool, a shadow, a form of light gathering on the ground.

The Tree Could Not Remember ...

William Theodore Van Doren. Fountain pen on notepad, 6 x 6.