Mexican Door

Mexican Door
acrylic on canvas
10" x 14"

Many of the doors we saw in various Mexican cities and villages are unique and beautiful. This door caught my attention, with the hard wear and old weathered wood. Love the way the nails seem to have no actual purpose!


This is the second Mexican door of this kind that I have painted - both with a keyhole and a door knocker. The first one can be seen here.

Mexican Door - stage 3

Although you may not notice a huge difference between this stage and the last one, there have been many layers of color added, and some of the detail work is beginning.


You will notice that there is a lot more Burnt and Raw Sienna showing in this stage. These warm up the painting, and connect the door knocker and keyhole with the wood. However, I am going to add another grey layer on top of the siennas so that the wood's tone is mostly greyed and aged. 


The next time I post this painting, it will be completed. I hope. :-)

Beginnings...

acrylic painting of a Mexican door - a work in progress

I love beginnings. For me, they are always full of promise, excitement, adventure...I just love the potential contained in a new beginning!


Today I began this new acrylic painting. It is from a Mexican door photo I took in a little village up in the mountains about an hour outside of Guadalajara. The wood is old, weathered, rusted.  It has odd nails and a door knocker and keyhole which I am sure are never used. Since I love weathered battered old wood, I took several photos of various doors, and have been waiting to paint another one since I did Mexican Keyhole, which you can see here. These doors are truly unlike anything else I have ever seen - very unique and even puzzling in how they actually function!


I will show you how this painting looks as it progresses. This is just the base underpainting layer. Lots to develop on top of this! But already, just in shading in the undercoating, I am excited to paint this one!