“A MAGICAL TALE OF REDEMPTION”*

Too much work — not enough time. Too much worry — not enough joy. Too much living online — not enough living. These familiar problems confront the narrator of 47 Minutes on Christmas Eve . . . 

*The Hook, Charlottesville, Virginia.

 

 

Yours Truly, October 27, 2011.

YouTube video based on the January 2011 gallery talk for “Moment & Horizon: The 365 Sunsets of 2010,” at Baker Gallery, Woodberry Forest, Va.

 

COMMEMORATIVE SUNSETS

Some of the best gifts I’ve given friends and family have been paintings of the sunset or sunrise from a special day – their wedding day, the day a child was born, a special anniversary, the day a new enterprise was launched. 

I’ve recently started doing these kinds of paintings by request – to commemorate someone’s special occasion.

In most cases, these works are oil paintings on a 16 x 20 canvas of the sunset as seen from my studio facing the Blue Ridge. Inquire here, or by writing me at 14thofjuly@gmail.com.

Wednesday
Feb152012

Time’s Winged Chariot – Sunset, Wednesday, 15 February 2012

William Van Doren, TIME’S WINGED CHARIOT. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Wednesday
Feb152012

Moment & Horizon begins with each day’s sunset. I’m in the seventh year of painting every sunset – starting January 1, 2006 – having painted many before that, from June 1995. 

Most of the sunsets are seen from the same vantage point, facing the Blue Ridge, in Virginia, north of Charlottesville. Otherwise I paint the sunset view from wherever I happen to be. Even if painted later from a sketch, these paintings are done “alla prima” in around the same time it takes to watch the sun go down.

In addition to sunsets, there are also the red paintings and Open Market, plus the Moment & Horizon Facebook page and Twitter.

Thank you for visiting. 


Wednesday
Feb152012

Tweets Illustrated: Piece of Ground (Part 2)

William Van Doren, pencil on CVS scratch pad, 4 x 6.

Wednesday
Feb152012

Tweets Illustrated: Piece of Ground (Part 1)

William Van Doren, pencil on CVS scratch pad, 4 x 6.

Tuesday
Feb142012

Landing On Venus – Sunset, Tuesday, 14 February 2012

William Van Doren, LANDING ON VENUS. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Tuesday
Feb142012

On Drawing

The drawing you just made is the one that sucks. The one you did last week is now “maybe not really so bad.” The one you come across from a few years ago: “Oh, I never realized how much I like this!”