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The Accidental Artist

The Accidental Artist

Feedback from Kim Yates

I accidentally started painting about a year ago in an attempt to write a children’s book. I decided to try and draw my characters, which lead to trying to draw them in colored pencils, then watercolor, acrylic and finally oil-which by then I was hooked. …

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Artwork by Kim Yates (Nevalee), Web Art Academy student

Artwork by Kim Yates (Nevalee), Web Art Academy student

I have only picked up the paint brush …… as well as pencil for drawing…. about a year ago, although coloring was a favorite as a child. I actually stumbled into it because I was thinking to write a children’s book and thought about drawing out my characters. Well the characters came out pretty good, then I tried some other things to draw, my dog, my kids, etc. Writing a book quickly fell out of my head as I couldn’t get enough of drawing so I tried doing charcoal drawings ( which I like a lot) then I tried pastels, then watercolor, then acrylic and finally oil ( fell in love with oil). Went through all those stages within a…

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