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I have really enjoyed working on this project. I love the contrast between the colors and the mood of the piece so far, although I do think some of the figures are forming weirdly. My biggest struggle with this piece has been trying to position the figures somewhat naturally, even while planning, and I think when I went from sketching to painting I lost some of the natural-ness, although I still really like the piece! I am very excited to continue working on it and I feel lik

Kim McCarty is a watercolor painter, based in Los Angeles, CA, who evokes the “impermanence of nature and humanity” in her works. Her watercolors capture fluid renderings of natural figures and objects, balancing realism and abstraction. I chose to look into her because I feel like this is close to what I want to do with my work, although she has more of a balance of realism with realistic colors! Biography: https://www.dkgallery.com/artists/44-kim-mccarty/ Galleries: Within

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