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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Entries in Charlottesville Virginia (21)

Thursday
Apr182013

Garage Collage – Sunset, Wednesday, 17 April 2013

William Van Doren, GARAGE COLLAGE. Sunset from Water Street Parking Garage, Charlottesville, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

From the roof of the Water Street Parking Garage in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Monday
Jan072013

Bright Hot Pale Cold – Sunset, Monday, 7 January 2013

William Van Doren, BRIGHT HOT PALE COLD. Sunset from Rt. 29 & Westfield Road, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Winter sun, seen from Route 29 in Charlottesville.

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Tuesday
Nov272012

Falling Star – Sunset, Tuesday, 27 November 2012

William Van Doren, FALLING STAR. Sunset from Rt. 29 and Westfield Road, Charlottesville, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

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Friday
Aug312012

Blue Moon Rising – Moonrise at Sunset, Friday, 31 August 2012

William Van Doren, BLUE MOON RISING. Moonrise at Sunset, from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Moonrise at sunset, over the Southwest Mountains east of Charlottesville.

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Tuesday
Jan172012

Dog Day Afternoon – Sunset, Tuesday, 17 January 2012

William Van Doren, DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Sunset from Westfield Road, Charlottesville, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

At the vet, 15 minutes before it started raining.

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Monday
Dec192011

Magic Mountain – Sunset, Monday, 19 December 2011

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

A mountain that almost wasn’t there. On the southern end of my view, toward Charlottesville.

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