Sunset, Sunday, 11 July 2010

Sunday, July 11, 2010 at 09:41PM
BVD in A Painting A Day, Blue Ridge, Commentary, Sunset Paintings, Sunsetology, painting process

William Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

One of the things I look for in the sunset is a way to represent the underlying energy, the angelic or divine presence, the larger reality that we might not literally see with our eyes but that may account for the depth of our experience when we look at the sky.

Article originally appeared on The Very Rich Hours (http://www.theveryrichhours.com/).