Sunset, Rain & Storms, Wednesday, 16 June 2010

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

Storms skirting us on all sides, with sudden brief falls of rain, and at times the sky was ragged, with clouds in Tiepolo-tall perspective reaching way up and angels and whatnot sitting atop cumulonimbus. Just before sunset, everything closed up again and turned an ominous pallor of brown-yellow-gray, and then a sort of violet-yellow-gray, and I wasn’t sure what I would paint. Started painting.