Red Sunset Acrylic Painting Monet Warm orange set against cool

Warm orange set against cool shadow gives the picture its charge

strides toward the viewer while the others trail into the distance beneath a soft orange sky

Its blush orange

their petals glowing in tones of coral

It has the feel of an early summer morning in a garden that has only just woken up

Red Sunset Acrylic Painting Monet Warm orange set against coolThe sun has just met the horizon here, a white disc burning through banked cloud and sending a straight column of light down the still water. Above it the sky is churned into ridges of violet, plum and burnt orange, the paint laid on thickly enough to catch the light at an angle. A dark line of hills divides sky from lake, cool blue set against all that heat. Below, crimson and rose ripples spread outwards in broad horizontal sweeps that echo the fire