Storyboard Sketch

My sketches for last night’s sunset, which I’m just about to post — three phases on one sheet that make a kind of storyboard. In the top, first phase, which is more or less what I went with, I’m hoping I’ll know what “flat bluish greenish with orange” is supposed to mean. Then there’s a diagonal on the left labeled “cirrus contraily” that sort of didn’t make it into the painting. I called the last panel, when the sun was behind the mountains, “The Moment It Glowed” — which is kind of funny because it was glowing the whole time.

Open Late (Oil Sketch) – Sunset, Wednesday, 19 June 2013

William Van Doren, OPEN LATE (SKETCH). Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 11 x 15.

A first oil sketch for a painting that will post tomorrow. Wanted a title for James Gandolfini, but the only Tony S. thing I could think to say is that I “dweigned” to paint this.

Myriad Harbor (Sketch) – Sunset, Tuesday, 18 June 2013

William Van Doren, MYRIAD HARBOR (SKETCH). Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 11 x 15.

An initial oil sketch for the painting of tonight’s sunset.

Live Oak

William Van Doren, pencil, 9 x 12, 2013.

A dead tree too awkwardly placed to cut down for firewood. A tall oak leaning, dead these two years, which on falling would have its choice of electric lines to take down. Might be enough wood for a month. But a dead tree that will just have to go on living.

Tweets Illustrated: The Rivanna River Address

Ballpoint pen on #10 envelope.

Tweets Illustrated: Right Hand Knows What Left Hand Is Doing