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		<title>Some more useful tips</title>
		<link>http://learningtosketch.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/some-more-useful-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read some old posts and amazed at some of my notes.  Finally have  a work area to keep set up. Spent time with sadly neglected paintbox, cleaned/tidied it, re-organised paints which now look beautifully arrayed. Store specimens to last:  take  plastic bag, breathe deeply into, cover cut specimen stem with wet tissue paper, place in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosketch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4562570&amp;post=629&amp;subd=learningtosketch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paper: Right &amp; wrong side</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have been looking at this paper again &#8211; really really dont like it at all and thought it was because I was using the wrong side as it&#8217;s such an uneven surface and I&#8217;m used to a smooth surface.  Realised this wasnt the case because after I had bought this pad, I was very careful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosketch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4562570&amp;post=624&amp;subd=learningtosketch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pain of perfection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pics of  this orchid plant which has some shortcomings when comparing my graphite drawings with the plant in that the leaves are too big, ie wide and need to be narrower.  Started again this morning with a new line drawing on realising that the leaves were too big &#8211; the pain of being such a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosketch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4562570&amp;post=619&amp;subd=learningtosketch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cigarettes help graphite art</title>
		<link>http://learningtosketch.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/cigarettes-help-graphite-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading posts in the botanical art group mailing came across the really great tip of sticking the sharpened lead in to a cigarette filter to prevent graphite dust &#8211; which is reported to work every time; as the filter can be used over and over again, it&#8217;s really economical and perhaps the best use for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosketch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4562570&amp;post=617&amp;subd=learningtosketch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Masha</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Masha is one impressive artist as her flicker photos show.  Nothing more to  say other than that with work, time, perseverance and determination I aspire to be as good. Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosketch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4562570&amp;post=613&amp;subd=learningtosketch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to line and tone drawing skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With ongoing space constraints and a wide range of personal issues to contend with, I&#8217;ve had very little time for drawing/painting or so I thought until I  was pr0mpted to sit myself down and sort out some kind of daily routine. Much as I really want to concentrate on water colour, as I&#8217;m back to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosketch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4562570&amp;post=611&amp;subd=learningtosketch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time for change</title>
		<link>http://learningtosketch.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/time-for-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah&#8217;s praise about the quality of my botanical art follows closely behind somewhat different comments from an art friend who queried my blogging rather than write my thoughts in an electronic diary or a word doc; somehow that just doesnt feel the same because it just doesnt have the same feel as writing merrily away [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosketch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4562570&amp;post=605&amp;subd=learningtosketch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From the eyes&#8217; of the beholder</title>
		<link>http://learningtosketch.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/from-the-eyes-of-the-beholder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week in the height of our snow,  I&#8217;d invited a friend in after she&#8217;d very kindly brought me back from the supermarkert.  Ccurious to see the fruits of my labour, her surprisingly positive feedback played havoc which that internal critic of mine which has been telling me that my efforts and skills amounted to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosketch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4562570&amp;post=601&amp;subd=learningtosketch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orchidaceae &#8211; Temptation Rules OK</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was in M&#38;S this afternoon and my eyeses must have looked like they were popping off their stalks and rivetted to the mass of tall, large orchid plants which they were selling at 50% of the RRP.  What a bargain. Magnificent blooms, incredible leaves with loads of buds which show the potential to flower into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosketch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4562570&amp;post=597&amp;subd=learningtosketch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>End of apple era?</title>
		<link>http://learningtosketch.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/end-of-apple-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The apple of my eye is on its way out &#8211; hardly surprising as I must have acquired it about 6-8 weeks ago &#8211; it&#8217;s beginning to feel a tad soft and wrinkly.    Over these weeks I&#8217;ve probably learned more about my self and personal development through my determination to grapple with drawing this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosketch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4562570&amp;post=593&amp;subd=learningtosketch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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