Sunset, Thursday, 18 June 2009

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

Concerning this painting, its soundtrack was a deer snorting about 20 times as it walked a half-circle in the field from the right into the center of this view. We tried to entertain Flint the foxhound by alerting him to the sound (he was inside ... reclining), but the same dog I’d seen yesterday chase a deer for a mile, weaving in and out of a wide swath of power line toward the Rivanna River, merely almost imperceptibly raised one brow as he tried to appraise whether what we were saying had anything to do with food.