Sunset, Tuesday, 20 April 2010

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

What was a blue day goes down in blue clouds behind blue mountains. The sky drains color and sounds fall except for a few birds nearby and a distant highway. Here green and shadow, and a gathering cool dark heavy substance of air clinging to the foreground.

Sunset, Monday, 19 April 2010

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

Same Old Same Old

Why is it
That looking out the same old window
We do not just always write the same old poem?
Why is it
That looking out the same old window
We feel almost compelled to avoid in every way we can writing the same old poem
Or even mentioning the same old window? 

Sunset, Sunday, 18 April 2010

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

Sunset, Saturday, 17 April 2010

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

Today light seemed like a quantity and I couldn’t remember when I’d seen so much.

Sunset, Friday, 16 April 2010

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

Tonight’s quiet sky marks the one-year anniversary of the day this blog went live with daily postings of the sunset, along with quite a few other things (458 entries so far).

(For those new here, the sunset and sunrise paintings themselves began in 1995 and number over 3,300.)

While I prepare for some major developments to come, I’ve been tagging and categorizing past entries, working from the start toward the present. So far this tagging project has made it into early September 2009, if you want to go back and see how it works.

One of the most important changes here, at some point, will involve offering individual original sunset paintings to collectors for the first time.