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		<title>Burn, Baby! Burn!</title>
		<link>http://tondro.com/blog/2026/05/19/burn-baby-burn/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cassandra Tondro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 17:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Beautiful Bee&#8217;s Balm Sage. Hi Friends, My new favorite tool is a wood burning set. I&#8217;ve been burning holes in paper, which doesn&#8217;t sound too exciting, until you see some of the results. I use medical exam paper, which is transparent like tissue paper, but stronger. It&#8217;s impossible to control the size and shape of...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dark Art</title>
		<link>http://tondro.com/blog/2026/05/05/dark-art/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cassandra Tondro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 17:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Coreopsis in late afternoon sun. Hi Friends, It&#8217;s been one of those weeks where everything is frustrating and disappointing. The extra strong thread keeps jamming in the sewing machine. All of my paintings turn out dark. The takeout wasn&#8217;t good. The movie in the theater was boring. My head hurts and my shoulders ache. But...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Boro Revisited</title>
		<link>http://tondro.com/blog/2026/04/21/boro-revisited/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cassandra Tondro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cleopatra Hi Friends, Last week was rough. I left a cone of cotton yarn unattended, and unbeknownst to me, Cleopatra ate a whole lot of it. She has an oral fixation, and everything goes into her mouth. She also eats silk scarves, houseplants, plastic, and anything else of interest she can find. I didn&#8217;t know...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Incorporating Crayon Into Collage</title>
		<link>http://tondro.com/blog/2026/04/07/incorporating-crayon-into-collage/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cassandra Tondro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Collage]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wild strawberries in backyard. Hi Friends, I&#8217;ve been working on incorporating my crayon resist pieces into collage, and also trying out some other techniques that use resist in less visible ways. I drew crayon lines on tissue paper and covered them with black sumi ink, then collaged the tissue paper into the underlayers of this...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Resist Painting</title>
		<link>http://tondro.com/blog/2026/03/24/resist-painting/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cassandra Tondro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Collage]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The False Indigo plants are in bloom. Hi Friends, A couple of weeks ago I saw a Hauser &#38; Wirth video about artist Luchita Hurtado where she very briefly mentioned her &#8220;resist&#8221; paintings done with crayon and black ink. That captured my attention, and I remembered a painting I did many, many years ago using...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Developing Style</title>
		<link>http://tondro.com/blog/2026/03/10/developing-style/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cassandra Tondro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Artist Sketchbook]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[art experiments]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing like a sun-warmed loquat right off the tree! Hi Friends, I saw a wonderful video with mixed media artist Shawn Petite where she talks about wandering without having to be productive. Yes! That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been doing in my daily sketchbook. Wandering with no particular purpose or plan. Exploring and experimenting. Trying new...]]></description>
		
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		<title>25-Day Art Challenge</title>
		<link>http://tondro.com/blog/2026/02/24/25-day-art-challenge/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cassandra Tondro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dyer&#8217;s Coreopsis beginning to bloom. Greetings Friends, I joined artist Nicholas Wilton&#8217;s 25-Day Creative Awakening Challenge in February, and it&#8217;s interesting how it changed my work. The challenge was to spend 20 minutes each day creating a small piece of art in a sketchbook. We could use any medium and mix mediums, if we wanted...]]></description>
		
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		<title>My Friend Lydia and Found Poetry</title>
		<link>http://tondro.com/blog/2026/02/10/my-friend-lydia-and-found-poetry/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cassandra Tondro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Collage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leaf Prints]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Western Redbud tree beginning to bloom in my backyard. Hi Friends, Shout out to Lydia in the UK! Her class is studying my work this term and . . . wait! Someone is studying my art??? That in-and-of-itself is a surprise. Lydia&#8217;s mom wrote and asked if I could send one of my leaf print...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Collapse Weave</title>
		<link>http://tondro.com/blog/2026/01/27/collapse-weave/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cassandra Tondro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Early blooming Crocosmia in my backyard. Hi Friends, I&#8217;ve been working on some collapse weave handwoven scarves, trying to perfect the technique of using alternating cotton and wool in the warp. When washed in hot water, the wool in the scarf shrinks and the cotton doesn&#8217;t, giving an interesting rippled texture. It takes a lot...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Commission Update and Leaf Prints</title>
		<link>http://tondro.com/blog/2026/01/13/commission-update-and-leaf-prints/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cassandra Tondro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Birds of Paradise in the late afternoon sun, soft focus. Hi Friends, I finally got to see a picture of the rust and leaf print commission piece I made for the spa in Kansas City, Missouri in situ. It looks amazing! They hung it on a painted brick wall, and it really makes the space...]]></description>
		
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