Zed A. Shaw, Painter

Then the 20 minute figures allow me to do more color or include the backgrounds. These two I started just adding a little background:pic.twitter.com/oy4kJ0jWhk

Finally the very last watercolor figure I did was a 40 minute and I included the entire room in it. This was after doing about 4-6 hours a day of watercolor figures in all possible ways.pic.twitter.com/xsqTsTNMI3

I also managed to get in a couple watercolor portraits. This model was awesome. She was clearly a dancer so she knew how to pose her body in very good poses. The last two are also her, but I still didn't quite figure out the figure aspect until I did her portrait.pic.twitter.com/4b3FQJqT0e

I also brought a small box of Mungyo pastels, a 48 pastel set. You can do quite a lot with just a few pastels but it is soooooooo annoying. It's a major challenge, kind of coding in a turing tarpit language like M4. This figure I did of a model, and she's actually 20, no 30.pic.twitter.com/l4hAYqWj40

Pastels though are so pretty. They just explode off the page and photograph great. Compared to oil and watercolor they're the easiest to use and look the best. It's too bad they're so fragile. Here's the first pastel portrait I did of that model:pic.twitter.com/wI2lIrmw5v

Here's the other pastel portrait I did. I worked harder to subdue the color in this one but with the limited palette it's a lot of work. Both of these portraits took 40 minutes, and this time I used a faster blending technique rather than hatching like I normally do.pic.twitter.com/8XjXrMJ0RB