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Alcohol Ink is a painting technique using an alcohol based ink and isopropyl alcohol. The substrate or paper is a nonporous with a slick surface. After the ink and alcohol mix, you move the colors with either a hairdryer, air gun or by tilting. I have also used it with a brush as though it were watercolor. These techniques are very rewarding and can lead to some wonderful designs and paintings.

Watercolor is a water-based painting compound that can be either transparent or opaque. The pigment is suspended in a binder, generally natural gum arabic. It is a moist paint that comes in a tube, thinned using water, and mixed on a dish or palette.

Pastel painting or pastel drawing starts with an implement of pigment mixed with chalk or clay and combined with gum to make a paste that is then hardened and made available as soft or hard pastels, pastel pencils, or oil pastels.

Realism is a realistic form of painting or drawing, in which the artwork is based on an actual scene.