Sunset, Saturday, 22 May 2010

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

Raining all day, and in the afternoon near whiteout in the sky, except just before sunset the clouds broke and a crazy rosy light showed up. It was gone in two minutes, and the clouds closed up again, but it was fun while it lasted.

Silver Dish

It’s been raining, the skies a great basin, basically convex, a bowl of water overflowing or perhaps filled with holes. But the sky is lifting, if only for the moment, and in one corner, through trees, gray and bright, and here the bowl is turned the other way. I can look up into the bowl, and its breakfast of light.

Sunset, Monday, 17 May 2010 (Alternate Version)

William Theodore Van Doren. Bright Green Field, Dark Green Woods, Bright Gray Rain. Oil on watercolor block, 9 x 12.

Sunset, Monday, 17 May 2010

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

Sunset, Sunday, 16 May 2010

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

Rain coming.

Sunset, Friday, 14 May 2010

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

Surrounded by storms (much to the chagrin of Flint), including a huge steel-gray tower to the east, at my back, with sheets of rain and of lightning, I walked up the road a quarter-mile to get a better look at the mountains, the bunch of paintbrushes in my fist a magic deterrent, no doubt, to lightning bolts.