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		<title>A dining room chair in pen and ink</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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As some of you will know, progress on the new drawing has been very slow due to my troubles with a frozen shoulder, which has made work extremely difficult. However, I thought I&#8217;d post some of the photographs I have of the most recent work on the dining room chair in the bottom right of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little hedgehog update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote in my earlier post on the hedgehog, he has settled into his new home right outside my back door. While there were a few nights last week when I didn&#8217;t see the little fellow and thought he may have gone for his big winter sleep, he has been up and about as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This year’s clouds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Yesterday evening I went to hear Richard Hamblyn talking about his book Extraordinary Clouds, in which he presents photographs and descriptions of unusual natural and man-made cloud formations: the ones which did not make his earlier book on cloud classification, The Cloud Book. The talk was part of the Birmingham Book Festival and was introduced by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magnifying glasses and lamps</title>
		<link>http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2009/10/magnifying-and-lamps-for-drawing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, when I first started doing the stipple drawings, I didn&#8217;t use a magnifier at all, and yet when I began again this year after such a long time, I found myself picking up a magnifying glass: not only had I a greater desire for finer detail, but no doubt my eyes are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedgehog moves house</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/?p=1776</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last summer (2008) I was very surprised to see a young hedgehog quite happily bumbling around my garden in broad daylight. I was so surprised the first time it happened I didn&#8217;t even have time to reach for my camera, but the second time I managed to take a video of him eating some cat food, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Staffordshire Hoard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I went to look at some of the finds from the recently-discovered &#8216;Staffordshire Hoard&#8217;, which are currently on display at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The hoard is Anglo-Saxon in date, around 700 AD., and was discovered just a few months ago on farmland by Terry Herbert, a man using a metal detector. One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progress on the pen and ink drawing of window and clouds</title>
		<link>http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2009/08/progress-on-pen-and-ink-drawing-window-clouds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another two weeks has gone by since I last posted an update, and as you may imagine, my feelings at the moment are that the progress is slow and painful. I spend most days with a magnifying glass in my left hand as I work gradually across the paper, going back and back again over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaf-cutter bee laying eggs</title>
		<link>http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2009/07/leaf-cutter-bee-laying-eggs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little bee activity today for the first time in a while - they haven&#8217;t been enjoying the wet weather.
Here we see a leaf-cutter bee backing out of the tube she&#8217;s been working on (two pictures on the left), turning round (center right), and backing back into the tube (far right) in order to lay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inking the summer skies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week after my previous post and the top two panes of the window are now more or less complete - I won&#8217;t know whether more inking is needed on that area until I&#8217;ve completed the skies outside the window, the early stages of which you can see in today&#8217;s pictures.
The two images on the left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beginning to ink what’s through the window</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may have seen in this earlier post on the dolls house window drawing, I&#8217;ve been working on the ideas for a new set of pen and ink drawings for some time now. I&#8217;m now at the stage where the first composition I have in mind for this project has been sketched out in pencil, and I&#8217;m beginning [...]]]></description>
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