’Twelve Minus One – Sunset, Saturday, 31 December 2011

William Van Doren, TWELVE MINUS ONE. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

New Year’s Eve marks the completion of six years of consecutive sunset paintings.

For Auld Lang Syne (Sunset, Friday, 31 December 2010)

William Van Doren, FOR AULD LANG SYNE (Sunset from Tysons Corner, Fairfax County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Sunset, Thursday, 31 December 2009

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

Chilly and damp with low clouds and fog on New Year’s Eve. This completes five entire calendar years of sunset paintings – 1998, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 – along with the many sunsets from 1995–1997.

This bumpersticker, sole decoration on a late-model Honda Accord, outsmarted my resistance today with its modest and simple realism.

Something Wonderful is about to Happen.

Happy New Year!