Sunset, Tuesday, 20 July 2010

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

Remnants of storms that came through about two hours earlier. Some clouds were like cotton candy, except perhaps more spun metal than sugar.

Cloudworld

The illusion was that clouds stretched left to right, south to north, in front of us, when in fact they wrapped completely around us, front to back, over, and under, so that we lived in a silk ball of spun cloud, and our cloud ball hung from a tree, a tree very like a galaxy.

Just Before the Rain. Sunset, Tuesday, 13 July 2010

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

Sunset, Rain & Storms, Wednesday, 16 June 2010

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

Storms skirting us on all sides, with sudden brief falls of rain, and at times the sky was ragged, with clouds in Tiepolo-tall perspective reaching way up and angels and whatnot sitting atop cumulonimbus. Just before sunset, everything closed up again and turned an ominous pallor of brown-yellow-gray, and then a sort of violet-yellow-gray, and I wasn’t sure what I would paint. Started painting.

Sunset, Overcast, Tuesday, 15 June 2010

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

Sunset, Saturday, 5 June 2010

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

Still, hot, close, with a few raindrops.