Heavy Metals (Sunset, Sunday, 2 October 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, HEAVY METALS (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Rainstorm in a Cat’s-Eye (Sunset, Saturday, 1 October 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, RAINSTORM IN A CAT’S-EYE (Sunset from Route 15, Oatlands, Loudoun County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

One of those moments when it’s raining but it looks like skies will soon clear. (They didn’t!) I was on my way back from the Michael Douglas Jones exhibit UNION: The Courier Journals, 1861-1865, at the Delaplaine Center, Frederick, Md. The room is deceptively small; in terms of its imagination, depth, artistry, and implications for our nation’s history, the show is immense. A signal achievement.

Something or Someone in the Clouds (Sunset, Monday, 26 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, SOMETHING OR SOMEONE IN THE CLOUDS (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Home in the Clouds (Sunset, Sunday, 25 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, HOME IN THE CLOUDS (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Open-and-Shut Case (Sunset, Tuesday, 20 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, OPEN-AND-SHUT CASE (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

The Color Gray Would Like to Renegotiate Its Contract (Sunset, Monday, 19 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, THE COLOR GRAY WOULD LIKE TO RENEGOTIATE ITS CONTRACT (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.