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Sunset, Wednesday, 2 September 2009

William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.I realized about five minutes before sunset that I’d like to talk about what I’m looking for in doing these paintings – aside from the element of painting the sunset specifically – what I’m going for, for example, in painting a sky. I hope to get to that soon.

In connection with this, I started looking again at the work of my friend Mike Fitts – both online and in our living room, dining room and kitchen – and discovered that I’ve never placed him on my list of links at the side of the page. Bad mistake, but it’s there now. And you can find Mike here now. 

Another clear sky tonight, although with more haze on the horizon ... rather purple haze ... uh-oh, here we go again. ’Scuse me ... while I paint the sky.

At this rate:

Maybe somewhere down the road a ways
You’ll think of me and wonder where I am these days
Maybe somewhere down the road when someone plays
Purple Haze ...

(Apologies to Tom Petty and the Traveling Wilburys.)

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