Shades of Blue-Gray Plus Assorted Other, Possibly Quasi-Imagined, Colors for the Sake of the Greater Good (Sunset, Friday, 5 August 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, SHADES OF BLUE-GRAY PLUS ASSORTED OTHER, POSSIBLY QUASI-IMAGINED, COLORS FOR THE SAKE OF THE GREATER GOOD (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Translation: I get a little retsless when it’s cloudy every day. I think I realized at some point I could be a painter of absolutely ‘naturalistic’ skies, but that I’d then have to suppress every instinct.