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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Friday
Dec142012

Home Before Dark – Sunset/Twilight, Friday, 14 December 2012

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

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Sunday
Sep302012

Autumn Moon Festival – Moonrise at Sunset, Sunday, 30 September 2012

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

(Moon in the painting is more magenta-gold than the red seen in this photo.)

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Saturday
Jun022012

Study for a Portrait of the Queen

William Van Doren, oil on gessoed 140# Arches, 11 x 17, 2012.

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Tuesday
Jan242012

Dragon Float – Sunset, Tuesday, 24 January 2012

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

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Sunday
Jun052011

Low to High (Sunset, Sunday, 5 June 2011)

William Van Doren, LOW TO HIGH (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Mountains were barely visible in clouds, so I moved the perspective up from the horizon. Title refers to a certain kind of lacrosse shot or to the vast distance between two decks of clouds.

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Friday
Jun032011

Door No. 3 (Sunset, Friday, 3 June 2011)

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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