Sunset, Friday, 16 October 2009

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

Gray is gray – light gray, bright gray, brown gray, burnt charcoal, mother of pearl, Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, violet-gray cotton candy, steel rail polished mirror gray, dishwater, orange-gray shade under sunlit zinnias, gray slag of molten metal, gray ocean surface sunrise, blazing midsummer sun somewhere inside the gray.