The Pink Ray (Sunset, Monday, 24 January 2011)

Monday, January 24, 2011 at 08:05PM
BVD in Blue Ridge, Sunset Paintings, Sunsetology, light, painting process

William Van Doren, THE PINK RAY (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

The sky had already been fairly ridiculous, but then a subtle pink ray turned into an all-out, well-defined radiant pink searchlight beam all the way up the sky. Mama said they’ll be days like this ...

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