Hello fellow artists! I hope you are having a wonderful summer so far! Today I wanted to share a really beautiful technique for painting watercolor sunsets. It is seriously so easy, and fun, and well it’s just a blast!
Isn’t it gorgeous?
Let’s get started!
Start out with a blank watercolor piece of paper. (or like mine, in a notebook)

Fill your pallet with sunset-like colors I used: (from left to right) Blue, Dark Blue, Red, Blood Red, Dark Orange, Red-Violet. The colors in the center are mixed from the main colors.
Now Paint! I can’t really tell/show you how to do this because, well everyone has a different way of doing it. I will say this: Start with the reds/pinks at the bottom, use the Red-Violet to turn the red/pink into blue’s. You could also look up a few sunset pictures, and go off of them. 😉
Once the paint is dry, you can add your mountains, tree line, people, silhouette. I used a fine tip pen to outline, then a sharpie to fill in. (you don’t need a chisel sharpie, that’s just all I could find 😛 )
And you are finished! Ta-Da! It was pretty easy wasn’t it? I’m still debating to whether to put a person on the mountains or not. What do you think?
Have a wonderful day, friend!
Love it! It looks easy and super pretty! 😀
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Thank you! It is 😉
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this is great Hannah!
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Why thank you!
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I love it!
You should totally put a person… maybe with arms opened wide and just enjoying the sunset haha
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This is gorgeous! You should put a horse or something on it!
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Thanks! Hmm, that’s a good idea, maybe I will!
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Looks great! love your new header and signoff!
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Aww, thank you!
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Thank you for the tutorial Hannah! I think you should add a little person. 😉 I hope you do more watercolor tutorials as I love watercolor painting! 🙂
love,
Ashley
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Aww, thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed!
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This is so cool 🙂
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Thank you!
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This is so gorgeous!
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Thank you!
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