From Blackrock – Sunset, Monday, 7 September 2015

William Van Doren, FROM BLACKROCK. Sunset from Blackrock, Shenandoah National Park, Va. Oil on canvas, 28 x 35.

Shenandoah Floor & Ceiling – Sunset, Saturday, 29 August 2015

William Van Doren, SHENANDOAH FLOOR & CEILING. Sunset from Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park, Va. Oil on canvas, 28 x 35.

Looking out over the Shenandoah Valley from Big Meadows on the Blue Ridge (on Skyline Drive) toward Massanutten Mountain and the Alleghenies in the far distance.

Skyline Drive Sunset, Tuesday, 10 August 2010

William Van Doren, Sunset from Skyline Drive, Rockingham County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

In a sense this is the opposite of my usual perspective, which is looking up at the Blue Ridge. Here I’m on the ridge, at 3125 feet, looking down (at the Shenandoah Valley). On the way to Big Meadows, below Lewis Mountain. In the haze the ridge of Massanutten Mountain was barely distinguishable.