Fire and Ash (Sunset, Thursday, 29 September 2011)

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

A Whole Wide Bunch (Sunset, Wednesday, 28 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, A WHOLE WIDE BUNCH (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

When my sister, as a little kid, thought she had a lot of something, she called it “a whole wide bunch.” Here I was interested in getting a whole wide bunch of sky.

The Substantial and the Insubstantial (Sunset, Tuesday, 27 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, THE SUBSTANTIAL AND THE INSUBSTANTIAL (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

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.

Wouldn’t It Be Nice to Live in a Fortress

Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a fortress, high, all alone, in the high rocks, with all, everything I needed, a white thick-walled tibetan sort of place curved and presenting no corners, and I would remain here, quietly enduring, from time to time receiving news of a friend or loved one passing away, but remaining here, affected to be sure, at times even weeping, but undisturbed, and with each passing perhaps a thin layer of the outer wall powders away, all my friends, all my family, who make it possible for me to have a fortress in the first place, I’ll outlive them all, naturally, so fortified.

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.