Jia Sung is a Singaporean-Chinese artist based in Brooklyn, whose practice includes painting, drawing, books, and even contemporary tapestry, employing influences from mythology to Buddhism.

With this engagingly instructive video - part of MoMA’s IN THE STUDIO series - she takes viewers step by fascinating step through her process of applying watercolors to a work of art. She makes insightful references to both Paul Cezanne and Georgia O’Keefe along the way.

By the way, a couple of our favorite watercolors from the permanent collection at MoMA are Elizabeth Peyton’s ‘John 1971’ (a portrait of Beatles legend John Lennon), and Marc Chagall’s exuberant ‘Gypsy’, from 1942.