Self-taught visionary artist. Painted every sunset for 11 years through 2016. Bio here. William Van Doren art also on Facebook and Instagram, and art prints on Pixels.com/Fine Art America. Author of the non-holiday book 47 Minutes on Christmas Eve. Coming in 2019, Into the Sunset: Paintings and Notes from 4,000 Nights.
William Van Doren, DOOR NO. 3 (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.
By waiting past the initial stage – a brilliant sunburst and dirty-bright ice white clouds – and then sunset proper – old gold and purple – I came to the twilight, which seemed to have more of the feeling of day’s end. And which brought the moon into the picture.
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