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Read more about the article Creating a Kingfisher with Mixed Media: A Journey Beyond Technique

Creating a Kingfisher with Mixed Media: A Journey Beyond Technique

Today I am going to take a deeper look inside Creating a Kingfisher with Mixed Media by focusing on some of the other features involved in making art. Every piece starts with some sort of inspiration whether that is manually generated or bestowed upon us by the gods.  I often looked to nature for inspiration for art when I feel like just practising my painting and the kingfisher is such a striking subject with its colouring being a natural complementary colour scheme.

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Read more about the article Intimidated by Oil Paints? 5 Reasons Not to be Hesitant
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Intimidated by Oil Paints? 5 Reasons Not to be Hesitant

Oil paints need no introduction; they have been used in many celebrated paintings by ‘the masters’. It may be this status as the medium of the masters that causes them to be regarded with such reverence that they feel just out of the grasp of the beginner painter. But they are just a medium and I want to show how you can overcome that initial barrier. Because oil paints are a lot of fun ;)

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