Self-taught visionary artist. Painted every sunset for 11 years through 2016. Bio here. William Van Doren art also on Facebook and Instagram, and art prints on Pixels.com/Fine Art America. Author of the non-holiday book 47 Minutes on Christmas Eve. Coming in 2019, Into the Sunset: Paintings and Notes from 4,000 Nights.
William Van Doren, Sunset from Skyline Drive, Rockingham County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.
In a sense this is the opposite of my usual perspective, which is looking up at the Blue Ridge. Here I’m on the ridge, at 3125 feet, looking down (at the Shenandoah Valley). On the way to Big Meadows, below Lewis Mountain. In the haze the ridge of Massanutten Mountain was barely distinguishable.
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