Ive painted other doors before, and will paint plenty in the future, I am sure, but this may be the one where I look back and say that I have kind of changed techniques. I started by drawing a very (well, at least fairly) good representation of a wooden door in a stone wall. I didn't draw any of the stones in the wall, but drew everything else. I had plans to do what I always do, which is to paint this little bit, then move the paper, paint another little bit, then repeat, repeat, repeat until I have what I think is a finished painting. Well, after I started the door that way, I took a little different turn. Everything after the wood was done free form and in rapid succession. While the coloring is a little less than imaginative, I think it made for some really nice bits to the painting.
Painting with the strict way I would have painted in the past, this painting would have taken me an hour or more, but since I painted the brown of the door, this took me no more than 10 minutes.
For me, the stone really stands out, I could have used a bit more color, but they really seem to stand out, and the door does look like it is set back just a bit in the jam.
Hope you like it.
