grace m
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Throughout June, I worked on planning my piece and cycled through a few different ideas before settling on my final idea. Then I spent more planning the color palette and painted the watercolor ground onto the wooden panel. That was all I got done during June, but I was very happy with the progress I made and my planned design!

For our fifth in-class project, I worked with watercolor instead of acrylic. I feel like it's going really well and I really enjoy the flow of painting with watercolor. I did accidentally layer come of the colors too much and they got too dark, but I think with practice I'll get better at not doing that. I really like how vibrant the colors can get though, and painting the background is super fun. I did not start with a sketch first, which I think was part of some of the pro

This was our third in-class project (4th overall if we count the home project), and my personal goals were to utilize color and paint, whereas my teacher-established goals were to establish a foreground, midground, and background. I think I accomplished this relatively well, and while the painting could've been more polished, the weeks were just too hectic to really polish. I'm pretty happy with it though! I started by sketching out what I wanted it to look like and then tra