Welcome to The Very Rich Hours, where you can find postings of each day’s sunset. I’ve been painting every sunset since January 1, 2006.


This journal is named for the 15th-century illuminated manuscript The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry (Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry).


Most of these sunsets are seen from the same vantage point, facing the Blue Ridge, north of Charlottesville, Virginia. Even when I’m traveling and the sunset has to be done later from sketches, all of these works are painted “alla prima” — wet in wet, without later revision or overpainting, in about the same time it takes to watch the sun go down.


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William Van Doren

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Saturday
May182013

Low Clouds Over Piney Mountain – Sunset, Saturday, 18 May 2013

William Van Doren, LOW CLOUDS OVER PINEY MOUNTAIN. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

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Friday
May172013

The Gathering Clouds / Gathering the Clouds – Sunset, Friday, 17 May 2013

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

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Thursday
May162013

Late-Breaking – Sunset, Thursday, 16 May 2013

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

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Wednesday
May152013

Spill – Sunset, Wednesday, 15 May 2013

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

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Tuesday
May142013

A Mind of Its Own – Sunset, Tuesday, 14 May 2013

William Van Doren, A MIND OF ITS OWN. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

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Monday
May132013

Variations on Blue Monday – Sunset, Monday, 13 May 2013

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

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