finger painting

painting method

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Finger painting is a technique where pigment is spread on paper using fingers, or it can refer to the artwork created this way. The paint used for this method is typically jelly-like and designed for application with hands rather than brushes. This artistic approach has been in use since at least 1885.12

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To be sure, finger painting, as found in prehistoric cave paintings, has occasionally been practiced since the late Renaissance and increasingly so in more recent times. For drawing as such, however, the method is irrelevant. Similarly, the use of pieces of fur, frayed pieces of wood, bundles of…
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To be sure, finger painting, as found in prehistoric cave paintings, has occasionally been practiced since the late Renaissance and increasingly so in more recent times. For drawing as such, however, the method is irrelevant. Similarly, the use of pieces of fur, frayed pieces of wood, bundles of…
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