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           Art Mediums, (zaibatsu), 12/17/2018
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My daughter  is an artist.  Art is  the thing that  she does
when she has  free time. It's the thing she  does in the few
brief moments before she has to run to other things. Its the
thing that  she thinks about  and talks about and  fills her
room with. She's an artist because she loves to create art.

The other day,  my daughter said to me, "dad,  it seems like
all of the artists are  switching to digital art." Ok, first
off,  my  daughter has  a  tendency  to use  hyperbole  when
talking  about what  "all the  other kids"  are doing.  It's
normal, I think, for an adolescent to fret about fitting in.
Second, she spends a lot of  time on the internet looking at
what  other  people  are  doing with  art...  and  surprise,
surprise,  a  lot  of  people  online  are  posting  digital
artworks.

I had a  short talk with her about art  mediums, and the joy
that comes from working with  a wide variety of mediums. I'm
not an artist, but my  younger brother is, and he absolutely
loves a wide  variety of mediums, including  digital ones. I
encouraged her  to continue with  the mediums she  loves, as
she explores digital methods.  There is absolutely no reason
to abandon one to explore another.