Parting Gestures – Sunset, Sunday, 3 March 2013

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

One Painter’s Perspective

It’s natural, but funny, that we say the light changes. The light never changes.

The Blue Ridge Partly Obscured by Snow Flurries – Sunset, Saturday, 2 March 2013

William Van Doren, THE BLUE RIDGE PARTLY OBSCURED BY SNOW FLURRIES. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

The mountains I usually paint as a single profile separated between the nearest range and more distant ones beyond the snow clouds.

The Crystallography of Clouds – Sunset, Friday, 1 March 2013

William Van Doren, THE CRYSTALLOGRAPHY OF CLOUDS. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Live Oak

William Van Doren, pencil, 9 x 12, 2013.

A dead tree too awkwardly placed to cut down for firewood. A tall oak leaning, dead these two years, which on falling would have its choice of electric lines to take down. Might be enough wood for a month. But a dead tree that will just have to go on living.

Breaking the Waves – Sunset, Thursday, 28 February 2013

William Van Doren, BREAKING THE WAVES. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.