Simple watercolor painting for beginners with a beautiful door and lots of flowers. Only three steps to help you understand how easy and effective layering is for successful watercolor painting.
Downloads for Beautiful Door with Flowers
- 8 x 10 Outline Page
- Card size outline with finished painting
- Finished Painting
- Reference Photo from Pixabay
Suggested Colors for Door Watercolor Painting
- Yellow – any bright or lemon yellow or Green Gold
- Green – any tube green or mix your yellow + blue
- Dark Green – Perylene Green or mix (green + black) or (Phthalo Blue + Burnt Sienna)
- Beige for walls – Raw Sienna, Yellow Ochre or mix Brown + Yellow
- Brown – Burnt Sienna
- Red – any red
- Orange – Transparent Pyrrole Orange or mix (red + yellow)
- Blue – Cobalt or any pretty light blue
- Purple – mix (blue + red) or Dioxazine Purple
- Black – mix your own or use a tube black
Step by Step Watercolor Instructions for Door with Flowers – Layering for Success
Step 1 – Draw or trace your outline onto your watercolor paper with graphite paper.
Step 2 – Paint the first light value layers on wet on wet with watercolor (for beginners).
Wet the paper with clean water so it is evenly damp.
- Roses – Paint the roses red – paint more clumps of roses than you do single flowers.
- Leaves – Add yellow or yellow green around the flowers
- Walls – Paint beige on the walls and brown at the bottom.
- Door – blue on the top 2/3 and beige/brown on the bottom third.
- Grass – medium green with darker green at bottom. Don’t overdo it.
- Flower pot – flowers any color you like, a little greenery and paint the pot orange.
Step 3- Paint the medium values of color in the second layer for Beautiful Door with Flowers.
Roses – paint on medium red and green. Don’t cover the lighter colors completely, leave some showing.
Door – the dark blue on the door only goes where the shadows are – the top coming down in diagonals and the right side.
Flower pot – darker orange on the left for the pot and darken the flowers and leaves.
Walls – rewet or paint on more of the beige or brown color to suggest texture.
Step 4 – Add your darkest values for real POP!
Note – If you don’t have rich dark colors (like Perylene Green or Dioxazine Purple) on your palette, you can mix your colors with black to darken them.
Roses – Add some real dark green to the foliage, especially towards the bottom.
Door – Add more dark under the top, a line along the left side and draw in the lines on the door and handle.
Walls – add shadows for the roses on the wall with darker beige or brown.