Two Mountains, One Sunset – Sunset, Saturday, 8 June 2013

William Van Doren, TWO MOUNTAINS, ONE SUNSET. Sunset from Keswick, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

From a wedding in Keswick, Virginia — and the sun really did set between the two mountains.

Doubling the Sun (Sunset, Saturday, 4 June 2011)

William Van Doren, DOUBLING THE SUN (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

The “two” suns were rather fortunate, since I was also commissioned to paint another version (which I’ve just done, on wood panel) for a wedding gift. As fate would have it, the wedding I was asked to commemorate took place just a few miles further down my road ... so what I witnessed really was “their” sunset.