The Very Rich Hours - The Very Rich Hours - Sunset, Wednesday, 3 June 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, 3 June 2009

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.Today, in the archive, we have our first look at an entire month of sunsets in a calendar array, for May 2009. In addition to building current months in this fashion, as past months are archived they will also be presented in calendar order.