We filmed a short Youtube video to give you instructions on how to use dry brush and other techniques to create old textures for the watercolor of the Blue Door. I don’t know the history of this door but it caught my eye because of the texture created by it’s peeling paint. I saw the door several years ago when visiting a little town in the French countryside. The town is called St. Felix.

I used 3 colors of blue to paint this door. Cerulean, ultramarine and thalo blue. For the walls, I used an orange color mixed with my favorite red orange, Scarlet Lake. I also added some of my favorite yellow orange called Winsor Orange. I always start painting the foliage with Sap Gren and add yellows to lighten it and blues to darken it and either violet to make it really dark or red to dull it down.

Here is my sketch that you can print out and copy or trace