Sunrise 1

Thursday, April 9th, 2026

a watercolor painting of a sunrise going from orange to deep blue-violet with a silhouette of a tree and three birds

Sunrise 1, 9″x12″ ink and watercolor on paper

I waffled for days about the title to this before hitting on the very simple, easy, descriptive title, lol.

A while ago Shayla Maddox did a whole photo series where she woke up every day at sunrise to photograph it from her Hawaiian home. These were so colorful I got inspired to paint some backgrounds in the same palette and then immediately did nothing with them, oops. I have one other of these, which I actually have a plan for, so hopefully that’ll be April’s finished art piece.

This is a larger painting, as is the second one coming up, so it doesn’t entirely fit on my scanner. I decided to go with scanning what fit rather than trying to piece together multiple scans, so the scanned image is technically a detail shot.

a watercolor painting of a sunrise going from orange to deep blue-violet with a silhouette of a tree and three birds

Sunrise 1, 9″x12″ ink and watercolor on paper

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