Sunset, watercolour, 2010

We country dwellers are often blessed with spectacular displays in the sky. The sunset can be really any colour in the warm spectrum from orange to hot pink to purple to bright red. The yellow shafts of sunlight break through brooding blue-grey clouds against the almost black silhouetted trees. I couldn’t resist including a rainbow in this book because I know from teaching kids art that rainbows are often a subject of choice, no doubt, because of how much fun they are to colour.  The usual order of colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple.