From painting to sketch ✏️🖌️ Van Gogh didn’t choose sunflowers as the subject for his paintings and drawings by chance: he thought they communicated gratitude. Vincent wanted to make ‘consolatory art for distressed hearts’. Sunflowers have since become synonymous with Vincent, and after he died, friends brought sunflowers to his funeral. 🖌️ 'Sunflowers’, 1889 ✏️ ‘Sunflowers’, 1890 Part of: Paris and Auvers-sur-Oise Sketchbook | Vincent van Gogh

From sketch to painting ✏️🖌️ ‘It often seems to me that the night is even more richly coloured than the day, coloured in the most intense violets, blues and greens’, Vincent wrote to his sister, Willemien (1888). ✏️ ‘Café Terrace on the Place du Forum’, 1888 ©️ Dallas Museum of Art 🖼️ ’Terrace of a Café at Night (Place du Forum), 1888 ©️ Kröller-Müller Museum | Vincent van Gogh

From sketch to painting ✏️🖌️ Adding colour to sketches through words? This is how Vincent described his imagination: ‘… a study of the Rhône, of the town under gaslight and reflected in the blue river. With the starry sky above – with the Great Bear – with a pink and green sparkle on the cobalt blue field of the night sky, while the light of the town and its harsh reflections are of a red gold and a green tinged with bronze. Painted at night’. ✍️ Sketch of Starry Night Over the Rhône, enclosed