Self-taught visionary artist. Painted every sunset for 11 years through 2016. Bio here. William Van Doren art also on Facebook and Instagram, and art prints on Pixels.com/Fine Art America. Author of the non-holiday book 47 Minutes on Christmas Eve. Coming in 2019, Into the Sunset: Paintings and Notes from 4,000 Nights.
William Van Doren, Feature(Fear)less (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.
Skies that many people might say have “nothing” in them or that are “featureless” – all gray, all clear, or, like tonight’s, hazy but cloudless – seem to me like provocations. A time to paint.
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