Sunrise, Sunday, 1 January 2006

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunrise from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on canvas, 14 x 18.On New Year’s Day 2006, I resumed the Book of Days, this time adding a painting of each day’s sunrise as well as the sunset. The series began 13 June 1995. At the autumn equinox 1997 I began painting consecutive days – each day’s sunset – and continued through New Year’s Day 1999. Consecutive sunrises and sunsets, beginning with this painting on the morning of 1 January 2006, comprised two complete years, 2006 and 2007. In 2008 I continued painting each sunset.