The sun was a ball of tangerine blazing through a hazy sky. To paint this scene I did an underpainting with cobalt blue (PB28) and pyrole orange (PO73) with some magenta (PR122) and yellow (PY154). For the sun I used pyrole orange and yellow, fairly dark valued. The trees were done with orangy-green mixes and plenty of perylene green for contrast (PBk31). It did not start out in a Van Gogh style, but with a few curvy brush strokes here and there, and the typical tree he liked to do, voila!
Sutton Sunset Van Gogh Style, watercolour 5 x 7" hot press, August 2021 (No. 2772)
Perhaps more Monet style this one, conventional one might say. I refined the colour and value mixes based on the first painting, and included a rooftop of one of the houses along Maple street. The actual value of the sun was much higher (lighter) but one can not match both the hue and the value of a setting sun using paint and paper, so I went for the hue. To create depth and atmosphere, the distant tree line is a bluish grey.
Sutton Sunset Monet Style, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, August 2021 (No. 2773)
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