Sunset Landscapes — 20 Watercolour Templates + Colour Recipe Cards (Premium Reference Set)

Twenty sunset scenes you can actually paint — coastal cliffs, lone trees on hills, lighthouses, sailing boats on the horizon, the orange-pink-violet gradient sky behind a row of pines. Each landscape kept simple on purpose so the colour does the work.

For the painter who has tried to mix a sunset and ended up with a muddy peach. The recipe cards crack the gradient — five colours per scene, sampled from the painted reference, with mix hints for the warm-to-cool transition that makes a sunset feel like a sunset.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• 20 lineart templates + 20 painted reference pages + 20 recipe cards + 1 identifier index

• A4 / 300 DPI

• Bundled PDF + zipped individual PNGs

THE COLOUR RECIPE LAYER

Sunset colour mixing is mostly about WHERE colours sit in the gradient, not just which colours to use. Each recipe card shows the five-swatch palette PLUS a note on stacking order (warm yellow base → orange band → pink middle → violet transition → deep blue top).

THE 20 SCENES

COASTAL — Cliff at golden hour · Lighthouse silhouette · Sailing boat on horizon · Harbour at dusk · Dune grass against sky · River mouth at sunset

RURAL — Lone tree on hill · Rolling countryside · Prairie field with windmill · Country lane with hedges · Cottage in countryside · Vineyard rows · Olive grove silhouette

SKYLINE & DISTANCE — Mountain ridge silhouette · Urban skyline silhouette · Distant island

WOODLAND & WATER — Woodland edge at dusk · Lakeside reflection · Beach with figures · Palm trees on horizon

TIPS FOR PAINTING THEM

Wet the whole sky area first, then drop the warmest colour (yellow) at the horizon and work upward into the cooler band — the colours blend themselves. Silhouettes go LAST, painted dark over the dried sky. Don't fuss over the silhouette — keep it almost black and let the sky carry the painting.

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