Breathing Rain – Sunset, Tuesday, 6 December 2011

William Van Doren, BREATHING RAIN. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Clouds in the Woods (Sunset, Tuesday, 22 November 2011)

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

Water Colors (Sunset, Wednesday, 16 November 2011)

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

Hydro System (Sunset, Tuesday, 15 November 2011)

William Van Doren, HYDRO SYSTEM (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.

To the Windward of Lee (Sunset, Monday, Labor Day, 5 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, TO THE WINDWARD OF LEE (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Not sure what it really means to be to the “windward” of a [former] tropical storm, but ... works for me. Heavy rain just beginning.