The Very Rich Hours - The Very Rich Hours - Sunset, Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Welcome to The Very Rich Hours, where you can find postings of each day’s sunset. I’ve been painting every sunset since January 1, 2006.

This journal is named for the 15th-century illuminated manuscript The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry (Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry).

Most of these sunsets are seen from the same vantage point, facing the Blue Ridge, north of Charlottesville, Virginia. Even when I’m traveling and the sunset has to be done later from sketches, all of these works are painted “alla prima” — wet in wet, without later revision or overpainting, in about the same time it takes to watch the sun go down.

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Sunset, Wednesday, 11 November 2009

William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

The walk today with Flint – five miles instead of the usual seven, because of the weather – was like walking between two sponges, one being wrung out, the other getting soaked.

I was hoping to have something for you, more or less for Veterans Day, about the film The Men Who Stare At Goats, and an oblique connection I have with its underlying story. It (the item) keeps changing. It’ll show up here as soon as my mind clears – or tomorrow’s sunset comes – or it stops raining ...

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