Scorched Purple – Sunset, Friday, 6 April 2012

William Van Doren, SCORCHED PURPLE. Sunset from Lynchburg, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

From a Municipal Flower Bed (Sunset, Sunday, 13 November 2011)

William Van Doren, FROM A MUNICIPAL FLOWER BED (Sunset from Rivermont Avenue, Lynchburg, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

I don’t know what the good people of Lynchburg thought about the guy standing with a sketchbook and looking toward the sunset from a flower bed in front of a small sign marking the western end of the Rivermont Historic District – junction of Rivermont Avenue, V.E.S. Road and Peakland Place. But I swear I didn’t step on the flowers . . .

Rivermont Collage (Sunset, Monday, 12 September 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, RIVERMONT COLLAGE (Sunset from Rivermont Avenue, Lynchburg, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

A loose composite of the sequence of skies and mountains I saw while driving along Rivermont Avenue in Lynchburg. I’m very happy I didn’t hurt anyone in the street while I looked between and over buildings, around and through trees, etc.

Hill City West (Sunset, Friday, 26 November 2010)

William Van Doren, HILL CITY WEST (Sunset from Lynchburg, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Sunset, Friday, 27 November 2009

William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

Went from here to downtown Staunton, Virginia – the most beautiful urban space in this region (followed by Lynchburg and Culpeper ... according to no less an authority than myself) – and the Blackfriars Playhouse to see the American Shakespeare Center performance of Henry IV, Part I. Then to Mockingbird – “Artisan Fare & Roots Music” – open only five weeks and a nice place to talk after the show. Not quite as many followers of Falstaff. 

Sunset, Sunday, 19 April 2009

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.68°F and just starting to rain.

For Sidney Everette Sutherland, 3 July 1937 – 19 April 2002, of Petersburg and Lynchburg, Virginia – a gentleman of the first rank and a truly loving and uncommonly wise father.