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More Nationality Paintings

In 21 Day Painting Challenge, Drawing, Painting by Zoe Nathan

This time Korea and Pan Africa. The girl who modeled for Korea has such a quiet elegance, and the Pan-African model has a gorgeous smile! Can’t wait to finish up. I’m also excited to be working on TWO paintings and managing this somehow on a Thursday, one of my busiest days! Awesome! I’m not sure we got the Pan-African Flag quite right… Oh well. We tried!
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Inspiration!

In 21 Day Painting Challenge, Drawing, Painting by Zoe Nathan

It’s what keeps things spinnin’! I’m realizing that an artist I recently became aware of has influenced two of my choices already in this challenge. I first saw Shawn Barber’s work at Sullivan Goss Gallery in Downtown Santa Barbara, and was fascinated by his portraits of tattoo artists. I went to his site, and although it kind of creeped me out, I really liked his technique on a series of doll paintings. (Hence my first …
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Portrait of an Artist: Karina Puente!

In 21 Day Painting Challenge, Drawing, Painting by Zoe Nathan

What do you do when the web, your DSL, and your computer seems to be conspiring against you? You paint, (at least I did.) For some reason, I tried and failed for the first time to upload new videos to my YouTube account, and for two days in a row! Hours of my life, gone with no return… I actually started the drawing for this yesterday while waiting for videos to render. I’m glad some …