Doorways are a very popular theme in art.  I knew an artist who almost made a living out of doing doorways, particularly, Mexican doorways with bright colours and plants etc.  This particular image is a doorway subject that I am going to use with my watercolour class.  Right now I’m trying to translate it to watercolour.  The original painting is an oil.

I also want to do it in my wet in wet approach.  With all the colourful flowers it’s tempting to start painting very specific shapes right at the beginning but I find it more useful to approach the final image with a succession of washes, going from light to mid values and only in the final stages adding the darks and creating the detail.   I like what this painting looks like and I just want to play with the composition a bit.