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The beginnings of mixed media painting dates back to 1870 to 1914, during the late Victorian years. It is also popularly known as La Belle Epoque, a French phrase which means the beautiful age or the gilded age.Rising advancement in technology and fading rigidityin social mores influenced artists of the time to explore unknown waters of creative expression. 

Consequently, Indian art has gone through a radical transformation with the passage of time. Absolutely innovative and modernistic styles, such as Impressionism and Art Nouveau began tospan from the concealed unconventional to the mainstream.

In the visual form of art, a mixed media painting is an artwork which involves usage of multiple materials. One of the best examples can be a collage that has paint, sea shells, and also bird. A popular technique for painters is mixing oil, watercolor and acrylic paints to create a single painting. Basically any blend can be used, limited only by the artists innovative imagination and materials available. 

In a collage, there are multiple design layers, each created with the usage of several medium. An artist can make use of any type of medium as per his or her preference, but paper, pencil, marker, and pen are most oftenused in a mixed media collage. Basically, these collages are either 2D display of art, like a painting on a canvas or a page in a scrapbook, or a 3D sculpture.

Another variation of modern mixed media Indian art painting is coalescing paint with other paper media including pen-and-ink drawings. The increasing advancement in technology has made it bit easier for todays artists to mix traditional printmaking techniques with digital photography or images. 

Multimedia artwork, a related form, was inclined to mixed media painting. Multimedia art is definitely quite different from mixed media in that non-visual components are used. Here a case in point is a smart combination of recorded songs, dance and spoken word poetry into an artwork. Different types of art materials being used by artists right from conventional to the artistic. Oil- and water-based paints are often used in artwork in tandem with ink, pastels, and pencils.
 
Mixed media is typically created in stratums. The artist takes every stratum judiciously and allows enough time for every stratum to dry properly. Discovered materials, such as bottle caps, matchbooks, or stones are sometimes used for creating an unusual effect. Bits of jewelry, uneven buttons, pencils, bolts, cereal boxes, screws and nails may bring about some extraordinary visual color and interest.