Monet mostly incorporates cool, dull colors of various blues and grays into his paintings, but also includes splashes of warm colors noted in the sun, sky, and sun reflection in the air water. The sun rises over a foggy harbor where the sun is emphasized by its bright red-orange color contrasting with the very foggy blue-violet sky in the morning. The clouds are colored by the reflection of the rising sun. Below, just below the center of the painting, a small rowboat with two figures inside floats in the bay. Various boats and ships are seen delicately in the background, creating a sense of depth to the painting. The painting is supposed to be his visual impression of what the harbor feels like in the morning, and not an actual depiction of the harbor on any given day. Which almost gives the viewer the sensation of looking out the same window that Monet did that spring