Sunset, Sunday, 28 March 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

It would be difficult to exaggerate how dark it was at sunset – almost like night, completely overcast with a steady heavy rain, and a strange subliminal blue-green behind the wall of gray.

Sunset, Thursday, 25 March 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

Fixing to rain.

Sunset, Friday, 12 March 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

Rain, and clouds so low they seem to be rolling through the tree branches. Which brings up a question many people seem to have: “What do you do when you can’t see the sunset?”

You can always see the sunset, even if you can’t see the sun set.

Sunset, Thursday, 11 March 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

Not raining ... yet.

Sunset, Tuesday, 26 January 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

I’d heard of word clouds. This afternoon (when it wasn’t yet overcast) I started looking for cloud words.

slate – asphalt – pavement – stone

wraith – fragment – shred – ice – cold

temple-like – pagoda-roofed – Le Corbusier

screen – sheer – scrim – glare – glaze – mica – isinglass

flat – pancaked – held between palms – heaven on one hand – on the other hand, earth

gray-blue – blue-gray – blue – gray

geographic – territorial – map-like – coastline – blue lagoon – bay – continental drift

And not least:

stratocumulus

Sunset, Wednesday, 18 November 2009

William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

This note is for anyone who might have been interested in my post the other day about Ayn Rand and Objectivism. Laurence Shatkin has posted a terrific essay at DailyKos on strained right-wing efforts to claim Rand as ideological godparent, excuse the expression. Shatkin simultaneously shows that the current crop of ‘conservative’ politicians and pundits hold positions completely at odds with Rand’s, and that, in any event, her ideas have been proven inadequate to the task of governing the country. His analysis of Sarah Palin as the apotheosis of what Rand called ‘the second-rater’ is priceless.