Sunset, Sunday, 7 March 2010

Monday, March 8, 2010 at 09:40PM
BVD in Blue Ridge, Brightwood Virginia, Leesburg Virginia, Sunset Paintings, Westminster Maryland, painting process

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Brightwood, Culpeper County, Va. Oil on linen, 16 x 20.

This was the third version of Sunday’s sunset that I sketched and more or less completely ‘got’ while we were on the road home from Westminster, Maryland, via Frederick and Leesburg. Ultimately I felt I had to get the “pink ray” that shot up on the left.

Article originally appeared on The Very Rich Hours (http://www.theveryrichhours.com/).