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featuring his artwork. The puzzle pieces feature unique shapes that do not snap into each other like usual puzzles. Instead, they settle side by side. This allows the puzzles to have many different combinations of results. In 2015, a series of needlepoint canvases based on Beard's work was released
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first taught him how to use an ink quill when he was a child, as well as encouraged him from a very young age to be an artist and businessman. The subject matter of the majority of Beard's artwork is wildlife using a style of painting he calls
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Beard's artwork consists mostly of ink drawings and oil paintings. His uncle
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