How to Draw Sunset With Paint

Dusk Painting – Learn How To Paint A Sunset

Create your very ain dusk painting with acrylics on canvas!

Learn how to paint a sunset with hot air balloon silhouettes afloat in the sky over a tree line.

This is a very easy acrylic painting for an absolute beginner.

The sunset painting was done on both an 11″ 10 xiv″ stretched canvas and an 8″ ten ten″ canvas.

This pattern can work on whatsoever size or any surface!

I get a lot of requests for sunsets!

While I do have a few tutorials with sunsets, I recall this one will be the well-nigh versatile because you can take the concepts and apply it to other paintings that you may want to take a sunset in.

Y'all also don't have to paint the hot air airship silhouettes if you just want to focus on the dusk painting.

Find out how to download PDF instructions for this tutorial!

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When I exercise sunsets, I select a few "coordinating colors" and alloy them horizontally downward the canvas.

I always like to start with blue (in this case "cerulean blue") for my top color.

The trick is getting the blue to fade into orangish without it turning "brownish". The colour "medium magenta" in betwixt the bluish and the orange hues helps with this transition.

Then the lesser of the dusk forth the horizon line is the brightest. That is where I used titanium white and cadmium yellow.

Finally, the sunday was done using the sponge cream pouncer! I admittedly dear those things and utilise them whatever fourth dimension I need to paint a circle.

The largest pouncer in this set made the perfect sun!

Later painting the sunset, and then you do all the silhouettes! You lot may find that some of the balloons in the distance expect lighter.

That is to create the illusion of depth! All I did was paint the smaller balloons with unlike shades of gray. Piece of cake peasy!

Anyhow, I know you will enjoy painting this cute hot air balloon painting! I can't wait to meet your painting.

Relish and Happy Painting!!!

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Materials:

Agile Time 2 hours

Full Time 2 hours

Difficulty Easy

Instructions

Paint the summit of your canvas cerulean blue mixed with titanium white. Paint this entire sky in horizontal strokes with your iii/4" apartment brush. Annotation that the canvas is in portrait mode.
Blend the blue and white down the canvas to a very light blue.
And so load your brush in medium magenta and alloy the light blue to medium magenta.
Rinse your brush and add cadmium calorie-free hue down the sheet.
Adjacent add cadmium yellow medium that blends downwardly the canvas.
Then add titanium white mixed with cadmium yellowish medium down to the bottom portion of the sail.
Paint the sunday using a circular foam Pouncer or any size paint brush.
Pigment the silhouette of the state mars black using a circular brush.
Pigment the silhouette copse using a small circular castor and mars black.
Paint tiny birds in the distance using mars black and a tiny round castor.
Draw the hot air balloons with chalk.
Paint the hot air airship silhouettes in with mars black and the smallest ones in the distance in with gray.

Colour Palette/For Sunset Painting:

Dusk Painting Video:

Step By Step Directions For Painting A Sunset:

i. Start with the color cerulean blue & titanium white.

Dip your 3/4″ apartment brush in the water and pat dry.

Load with the cerulean blue.

Paint the top ii-3 inches of the canvas with a nice, smooth long horizontal stroke layer.

As you work your way down with the cerulean blue, about ii-iii inches, add together titanium white to the brush (without rinsing).

Now your brush is double loaded with cerulean bluish and titanium white.

Continue painting the same horizontal strokes as you work your way down the canvas. That bluish will turn lighter and blend to a lite bluish.

2. Load the brush with medium magenta and keep to blend downwardly the canvass.

Next add medium magenta to the brush (unrinsed).

Alloy the medium magenta into the blue-white.

You will get a light purple from this.

Proceed painting horizontal strokes. At this signal, I reached about the one-half mode bespeak downwards the sail.

3. Rinse brush completely. Next add cadmium reddish light hue and blend into the purple so downward the canvas.

You might go an expanse where the color looks kind of "muddy".

This is because the cadmium red calorie-free hue is an "orange tone" and the medium magenta is a "blue tone".

The blue and orangish don't mesh well so it might await kind of brownish. You may not mind! Merely I offer a solution to gear up this afterwards…

Continue painting the cadmium red lite hue until you're most two/3 a way downward the canvas.

4. Add cadmium yellow medium to the not rinsed brush.

The cadmium yellow medium volition easily blend with the cadmium cherry-red light hue.

Continue down the sheet. The colour should be getting nice and solid yellowish with little orange left in information technology.

five. Finish the rest of the sky with cadmium yellow medium + titanium white.

Load the brush with both cadmium yellowish medium and titanium white (about equal parts).

This combo should create a very light yellow that will blend nicely with the cadmium yellow medium.

Fill the rest of the sheet all the mode down.

half dozen. Optional: blend the magenta/cad carmine light hue transistion.

To practise this, I used titanium white and medium magenta and slightly painted over that "muddy" area where the orange and blue hue meet.

Blend it in the sky and it turns into a brighter pinkish color (or a trace of a cloud).

7. Pigment the sun.

The lord's day was painted using the largest circumvolve in this pouncer set. (Note: this prepare seems to be unavailable at Amazon. You tin can find other round sponges that would work, like this set!)

Dip it completely in pure titanium white.

And so firmly printing and plow to form a solid circumvolve.

The position of the sun was approximately ii fingers from the bottom border of the canvas.

The lord's day was painted with a round pouncer sponge. Easy peasy!!

If your xanthous-white in the sky isn't dry all the way, that is fine!

The pure titanium white circle might blend slightly and look yellow. That is what happened with my dominicus and information technology turned out nice!

8. Use a #half-dozen round brush to paint the lesser ground line mars black.

Sketch the ground line lightly with the brush and so fill up it in with solid mars black.

My footing line was higher on the left and right sides and dipped lower under the lord's day.

9. Paint the trees.

At that place are a few ways you can paint silhouette trees. I even accept a postal service almost How To Paint Silhouette Trees With A Fan Brush.

I did not choose to use a fan castor for this painting because this area was too small-scale for that technique.

And so I opted for using the #10/0 round liner and the #6 circular brush.

Starting time paint a vertical line with the 10/0 liner.

And so use the #6 circular castor to paint the branches stemming out on the left and right sides.

Commencement from the elevation and then go to the bottom for the branches.

Go along painting the trees.

I purposely fabricated the trees taller on the left and right sides. Then every bit they got closer to the center, the trees were shorter.

Some trees were shorter on the left and right besides.

The trees nether the dominicus were the shortest trees and they did overlap the sun.

So the trees on the right gradually got larger.

The copse on the right were the tallest!

x. Paint birds.

Use a 10/0 liner round brush to paint the birds.

They are smallest towards the bottom of the sun and gradually go larger every bit they become up. I just put birds in this area of the painting.

11. Draw the hot air balloons with chalk.

Yous tin technically just start painting the balloons, if you feel confident!

But I recommend drawing the balloons out with chalk first so yous can figure out the placements.

Drawing a hot air balloon is almost similar drawing a "heart" simply the top doesn't have the "bumps".

Then the petty basket is like an upside downwardly semi-circle.

I only drew the large balloons. All the tiny balloons in the painting were painted without drawing them kickoff.

12. Paint the balloons black.

I used a philharmonic of the #half dozen circular brush and the #4 bright to fill in the balloons.

You tin can use any brush you lot feel comfortable with to fill these balloons in.

Just pigment them solid mars black!

For the smaller areas, like the strings and the baskets, employ that x/0 liner brush.

thirteen. Paint the tiny balloons with different shades of gray.

You can mix unlike shades of grey on your palette past mixing titanium white and mars blackness or employ gray paint if you lot take it handy.

To get a lighter grayness, use more titanium white and a tiny bit of black.

Each balloon is actually a unlike shade of grey. The tiny balloons were but painted closer to the sun.

14. Optional: Paint subtle white highlight on the bottom area of all the larger balloons.

Use a 10/0 liner to paint some slight highlight on the bottom of the baskets and a lilliputian bit on the lesser left and right sides of the balloons.