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Who says nail polish is just for dressing up your digits. Mia Christopher<\/a> uses non-traditional pigments like nail polish and latex with traditional ones such as watercolors and gouaches to create these extravagant textural pieces. \u00a0Plus we get to peek inside her sketchbook.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Who says nail polish is just for dressing up your digits. Mia Christopher uses non-traditional pigments like nail polish and latex with traditional ones such as watercolors and gouaches to create these extravagant textural pieces. \u00a0Plus we get to peek inside her sketchbook.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,281,70],"tags":[37,125,374,372,373],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-mixed-media","category-painting","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-latex","tag-mia-christopher","tag-nail-polish"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-zp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7080,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/30\/swell-things-no-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":2195,"position":0},"title":"Swell Things No. 10","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"November 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"1. 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