Comme Sous Le Ciel de Paris – Sunset, Friday, 13 November 2015

William Van Doren, COMME SOUS LE CIEL DE PARIS. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on canvas, 28 x 35.

Sunset, Friday, 19 March 2010

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

So I’m waiting for the drive-in teller at the credit union to send back my receipt, when I look up and realize, Damn, we sure do have some nice streetlamps here at our credit union ...

Ballpoint on CVS Chunky Pad, 4 x 6.I decided streetlamps that could almost be Parisian were probably a worthwhile expense. 

This by the way fulfills a prediction I made months ago that I would eventually post something drawn, not on the wonderful Moleskine notebook with some exquisite drawing instrument, but on my equally trusty CVS Chunky Pad, with the ever-ready Bic Velocity ballpoint.

Sunset, Friday, 8 January 2010

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

Something like the big blue sky of high summer, today we had our version of high winter – deep and unforgiving, more wind than sky. Strangely, evening on such a day often brings a huge gold sun and then a band of violet-rose. The colors seem so close to spring, in general, the artist has to look to the temperature of his paints, or the picture may resemble a Parisian twilight in an old ad for Guerlain. Which might not be so bad.

Update on Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 09:09AM by BVD

Traveling for a couple of days – sunsets for Saturday and Sunday may not show up here until Monday.