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How Did Shahzia Sikander Use Fresh Tea

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In the video, Shahzia Sikander uses fresh tea she boiled herself as a medium in her painting. This is actually a really innovative technique and a method not many traditional painters would do. Her technique takes a lot of practice since the stain needs to be distributed evenly. This requires her to be swift and accurate with her strokes in order to not create a streak or area too dark. In another one of her paintings, she is using white paint that she is building up over a period of ten years. This process takes multiple years to complete and if she is out of practice, her experience as an artist would not mean anything. This process is easy to get wrong. An example of this is she could have easily messed up her painting by using too much

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