When you meet people only once a year at an exhibition, it is sometimes easier to remember their artwork. Now we can connect an artist’s face with his or her artwork.
The lines are blurred between the different styles of painting and their labels. In Japan, the traditional method of mixing powdered pigments (often made from natural minerals) with binders is called nihonga to differentiate from paintings done with oil or acrylic paints to create a gouache effect. Coloured pencils are basically dried oil paint or watercolour paint in a stick. What if you used stencils with dyes on paper? Things get complicated as you can see.
