There are a few challenges that are particular to drawing and painting doors, including:

• Getting the proportions right


• Conveying a sense of depth


• Figuring out a way to depict faded paint and crumbling stone without overworking everything


• Including just enough of the elements that surround the door without taking away from your main focus

In this class I’ll show you how I approach my paintings of doors.

We’ll go step by step, starting in pencil, then moving on to ink and finally watercolor. I also add a few highlights with white acrylic paint pens.

I’ll give you a few of my own photographs of doors for you to work from, but I hope you’ll go through your photographs from your own travels and paint a door that you fell in love with during your own travels.