Just finished my first oil painting (well maybe a swiya more to go)... it is of a typical doorway here is Morocco, ornate tile, beat-up old wooden door that is all of five feet in height. Not sure why I chose my first subject to be a door, at first i had a young boy siting on the stoop with a snarl on his face, but I painted him out with the idea of putting him back in and he never made it back as i liked the composition better without him. The canvas is a little too small for the composition but in general I am pleased . I started another painting the other day of the Fes Medina it is a larger than this and right now it is in the underpainting stage... not sure where it is going at the moment but I am leaning toward an earth tone painting, stark and old looking.
So one down and many more to come ...INSHALLAH!!!
A bab/door is an opening--to a new life?
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