Shift South (Sunset/Twilight, Friday, 21 October 2011)

Friday, October 21, 2011 at 08:50PM
BVD in Blue Ridge, Sunset Paintings, Sunsetology, Twilight, William Theodore Van Doren, skyscape, sunset

William Theodore Van Doren, SHIFT SOUTH (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Sunset proper was a diagonal wall of cold blue cloud with a pale sky above; I was about to do that when I saw this, 90° to the left of my usual view.

Article originally appeared on The Very Rich Hours (http://www.theveryrichhours.com/).