Orange Cap (An Excursion-Diversion)

It’s an orange cap, right in front of me where I’m sitting, an orange cap with a white tiger paw logo. It’s lying upside down, so that we only see the back stitching of the logo, in the upturned lid of a white cardboard banker’s box. Draped over the far edge of the box lid, so that the fingers fall out of sight and the lower part touches the cap, is a lady’s pair of soft black gloves. A painter comes in, Jan van Eyck or Jan Vermeer perhaps — anyway, Jan comes in and expertly paints this little tableau into the far corner of a canvas filled with many such set-pieces. There’s an ornate round mirror beyond the window on the left wall, a lacrosse stick leaning up in a corner, a dusty black wood stove, a shelf with a small plastic treasure chest, and, on the right wall, a framed print of wild turkeys in a field of tall yellow grass. Jan leaves, and takes his painting with him.

Deciphering a Grocery List Made While Driving

Artemis and Zeus – Sunset, Tuesday, 22 May 2012

William Van Doren, ARTEMIS AND ZEUS. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

I couldn’t think of a title, so this was basically named by fans at the Facebook page.

East at Sunset – Sunset, Monday, 21 May 2012

William Van Doren, EAST AT SUNSET. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Looking opposite the sunset, east across the nearby Southwest Mountains (as confusing as that always sounds).

Millions of Eyes Can See – Sunset, Sunday, 20 May 2012

William Van Doren, MILLIONS OF EYES CAN SEE. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

From early Bee Gees, “Holiday,” to remember Robin Gibb.

Sundown at the O.K. Corral – Sunset, Saturday, 19 May 2012

William Van Doren, SUNDOWN AT THE O.K. CORRAL. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.