Using cadmium orange and cadmium scarlet, I painted in the circles of the sun. I blended in the edges of the two colours before the paint had dried so the colors run smoothly into each other, rather than there being a sharp edge.
I echoed the curve of the sun with two bands of orange, one pale and one quite strong. The effect isn’t very subtle and you’ll see in Step 3 that I worked on this. You still can see the white of the basic tree shape.
I put some cadmium orange in a horizontal band at the bottom to start defining the land, but it doesn’t make for a pleasing composition. The shape of the land or foreground isn’t dynamic enough and the rectangular block is at odds with the semi-circle of the sun and ‘sky’. (See: Composition Class: Dynamic Lines for more on this.)
