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		<title>Creativity of the Landscape Painter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study by Teresa Amabile and colleagues at the Harvard Business School tells an interesting story about creativity. The researchers asked a number of artists to select 20 of their works of which 10 were commissions and 10 were from their regular production. A panel of curators and art experts, knowing nothing of the nature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating an Abstract Painting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I felt inspired to create a new abstract painting and 2 ideas came to mind.  One was for making rectangles (with a few quirks) float in a spiral, getting smaller as they circled.  I drew the idea in my journal. The other was a variety of triangles with curved edges which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Varnishing Abstract Paintings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Thelma and I varnished some of our abstract paintings – 4 each, to be exact.  The formula is easy:  Mix half gloss varnish and half matt varnish (we used Liquitex) in another container with a lid so that what is left can be saved for the next time.
Use a somewhat wide brush.  Ours was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing an Abstract Painting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday in class, I chose an abstract painting by Hans Hofman to reproduce.  It has a red slab and a green slab at the bottom of the painting, with black on top of each, giving the appearance of depth – large rocks.  There’s blue in the upper left and red at top right and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abstract Art Class – Winter 2012 – #4</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The photo is my last painting which I promised 2 days ago.  It’s a small part of another abstract painting, done in the colors I like.
For today’s class, teacher gave us a large sheet of paper with 6 squares on it, each about 4” on a side.  She asked us to paint our emotions when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beginning a Landscape Painting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When beginning a landscape painting, isn’t it interesting that we do that in a variety of ways?  Some of us begin at the top and paint downward.  Some begin at the foreground and work up.  Some begin at the focal point or the center of the painting and work outward.  Some develop the picture all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finishing My Abstract Paintings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Work needed to be done on some of my latest paintings to finish them.  The last abstract painting, “Bubbles,” needed to have the white painted around the edges and a signature in order to be finished.  I now have done that.
For the new painting which was begun last Wednesday, I repainted most of it because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judging Landscape Paintings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damar Minyak, of Kansas City (area), MO, wrote a response to the January 20, 2012 newsletter written by Robert Genn, Canadian landscape painter.  It touched me because I feel very much the same way.
“History has shown that those who set themselves up as arbiters of &#8220;proper art&#8221; are wrong, almost 100% of the time. Consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Landscape Painter Visits a Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today:  a couple of quotes.  The first is by Robert Genn, Canadian landscape painter, from his newsletter last week.
“If a brilliantly good artist happens to live just down the street, his top-up of your efforts may be hard to take. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s good to check out dead artists. The dead guy won&#8217;t let you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abstract Art Class – Winter 2012 – #3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since yesterday I repainted the dark green to a lighter green on my abstract painting and changed one dark green circle to yellow.  Everyone in class liked the white edge, so all I have to do is sign it.  Oh – it really looks great hanging on a corner with the big blue circle down!  [...]]]></description>
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