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 ✏️🖌️ 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