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Paintings and Drawings at the 30th Kyoto Art Festival: International Exhibition of Art 2016

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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.

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Calligraphy and Ink Paintings at the 30th Kyoto Art Festival: International Exhibition of Art 2016

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Ink is a  medium that is greatly used in Asia but rarely used in Europe, North America, or Oceania. Ink wash, Chinese brush paintings, sumi-e, and ink paintings or calligraphy, shodo, sagyeong or one of the many other names used are highly valued forms of artistic expression in Asia.

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The 29th Kyoto Art Festival and International Exhibition of Art

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