Sorrow and Solace at Scout Mountain (Sunset, Saturday, 24 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, SORROW AND SOLACE AT SCOUT MOUNTAIN (Sunset from Scout Mountain, Corydon, Harrison County, Ind.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

I had come to Indiana, with my brother Steve and our spouses, because my sister, Emily, six years younger, had very unexpectedly died on the 20th. The great, and greatly bereaved, people at Scout Mountain Winery, where she worked part-time, hosted a small party for us, her daughter and some of Emily’s wonderful friends – wonderful to her and to us.

Indiana Retail Twilight (Sunset, Friday, 23 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, INDIANA RETAIL TWILIGHT (Sunset from Corydon, Harrison County, Ind.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

A commercial strip in Corydon, Indiana.

Welcome to Kentucky (Sunset, Thursday, 22 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, WELCOME TO KENTUCKY (Sunset from Interstate 64, Boyd County, Ky.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Just after crossing the Big Sandy River from West Virginia.

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.

Sooner and Later (We All See Double Sometimes) (Sunset, Saturday, 17 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, SOONER AND LATER (WE ALL SEE DOUBLE SOMETIMES) (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

This is an amalgam of skies I glimpsed on my drive before sunset, when clouds were bright, and at sunset, when they were dark. (Someone forgot to tell the clouds it was sunset.) Title borrowed from Charlottesville band The Bloody Angle.