Sunset, Saturday, 8 May 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 09:13PM
BVD in A Painting A Day, Blue Ridge, Sunset Paintings, Sunsetology, aesthetics, painting process

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

I had to remind myself not to get trapped into trying to “paint what I see” (whatever that could possibly mean), but also to account for the west wind just coming around to the north, and the day cooling down with a high lifting sky oddly like a summer evening at the beach, and the million and one things you can’t know with your eyes.

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