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!

I started focusing more on the figures themselves first rather than developing the clothing more, since I was more comfortable with that, and I feel like it is going very well. The last thing to do will be to resolve the background and clothing after I finish resolving some of the errors with the figures, and I am a little bit nervous to start doing those since they're going to be different from my prior piece(s). However, this is one of my favorite projects overall (they jus

This project has been incredibly fun for me to make, and I feel like I have improved a lot on incorporating depth compared to my last project (7). I am hoping that, as I work on it, the dress and clothing will develop more naturally--these are not my strong suits and I have been painting "nude" (not particularly privately detailed) figures so far, rather than clothed ones. However, I really like how the colors are developed and I am very excited to continue working on this an