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<description><![CDATA[In essence, I am painting the Story of my 'tribe' - the Europeans who came to build a nation in Australia. Born at Winton in Western Queensland, central stage of the 1890s uprising known as the Australian 'secret' civil war, my work in both images and writing is based on that colourful period of my countrys history.]]></description>
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<title>How to Live With Rheumatoid Athritis - On Your Own Terms</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:56:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Like anybody who lives with the 'daily grind' - in the literal sense, of joints in which the cartilage has been stripped away by the effects of long-term RA, leaving eroded bones to scrape across each other - I could cheerfully bite the heads off people who ask me this inane question...]]></description>
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<title>Rheumatoid Arthritis - Practical Tips for Overcoming Its Obstacles</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:53:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA['Give me a place to stand and and a lever long enough and I will move the world.' This statement was made by Archimedes, the famous mathematician and inventor who lived in ancient Greece, nearly two thousand years ago. His idea is the fundamental clue to how you can overcome the obstacles of arthritis by...]]></description>
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<title>Coming to Terms With Crippling Arthritis</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:52:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The first hurdle is getting past the shock of hearing that diagnosis. Still today, when medical science has wrought huge improvements in the treatment and management of RA, the news comes as a shock. Even the doctors who must deliver that news are burdened by the knowledge of what lies ahead for their patients.]]></description>
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<title>Revolution - Big Hopes, Small Change - Must It Be This Way?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:30:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The name an organisation gives itself often contains echoes of its history. The second word in the name of the Australian Labor Party is the only one in the Australian lexicon officially spelled in the American way. The reason for this is...]]></description>
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<title>Don't Let Self-Styled Experts Use Your Self-Doubt to Undermine Your Confidence</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:39:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Did you ever have an 'Emperor's New Clothes' moment? What I mean is: a moment of insight to a truth no one else seemed to have noticed. If that's ever happened to you, what did you do with it...]]></description>
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<title>The 'Salvator Mundi' - Has Playful Leonardo Left Us a Clue?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:11:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We humans are suckers for babies - of any kind. No matter how fearsome a species they will develop into as adults - Polar bear or Grizzly, Leopard or Lion - they beguile us by their cute curiosity as babies...]]></description>
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<title>Mona Lisa - Leonardo's Greatest Love of All?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:45:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The most famous painting in the world is, supposedly, a portrait of Lisa Giaconda, wife of a cloth merchant, completed over a four-year period by Leonardo Da Vinci. He was handsome and intellectually gifted beyond measure but so reclusive that...]]></description>
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<title>The Camera in Action at War</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:55:55 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a painter, I haven't taken much serious interest in photography. Because I'd been sketching from the time I could handle a pencil or crayon.]]></description>
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<title>What Is Love - And Is It Enough?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:53:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Psalmists sing of it, poets praise it, cynics scoff at it and The Beatles told us it was all we need: Love.]]></description>
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<title>Inventor of the Colour Wheel - Found at Last?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:34:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Who invented the wheel? Most people would agree that we'll never be able to name that long-ago genius. However, the inventor of another Wheel - on which painters rely - can now be named. Perhaps...]]></description>
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<title>Why There Is No End to the Making of Books and Blogs</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:05:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's well said: 'If there's any way, short of shooting yourself, to stop you from writing a book, do that thing!' That famous directive hasn't made a dent in the production of books since the invention of writing. I think the explanation is obvious.]]></description>
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<title>Selling Your Art Online - Can You Do It?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:57:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many artists today dream of making a living wage from online sales. Like the young idealists of the 'Arab Spring' and 'Occupy Wall Street,' aspiring artists are fed-up with entrenched systems that seem to hold little hope for the untested newcomer. But if you try selling your artwork, the Web can trap you...]]></description>
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<title>Art Shows - Will They Help or Hinder Your Art Career?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:05:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A prize won at such shows does confer on you an extra degree of confidence in the work you're doing. It is definitely taken into account by staff at the public galleries. Does it count with staff at private galleries?]]></description>
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<title>The Gallery Contract - What's in It for the Artist?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:08:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some galleries insist upon your signing an exclusive contract with them. I suggest you, in turn, politely insist on taking a copy of the document home to mull over. Any legitimate gallery will not refuse this. You must be sure of the terms you'd be accepting.]]></description>
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<title>The Interview - What Impresses a Gallery Director?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:15:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's hard to go past the old one: 'You never get a second chance to make a first impression.' Private galleries have to make a profit to stay in business. A new artist who presents in a business-like way is halfway towards being accepted into the gallery's 'Stable.']]></description>
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<title>The Artist's Plan - How to Get a Gallery Interview</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:31:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You are ready to become an art professional. You want to show your work to the world and you hope to make a living from it. Your next step is getting an interview with a gallery director.]]></description>
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<title>The Private Gallery - Three Fundamentals to Getting Shown</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:48:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Your best bet for getting your artwork on display and sold to collectors remains what it has always been: the private gallery in the high street. So, how do you go about achieving this? There are three fundamentals the emerging artist must know before approaching a private gallery.]]></description>
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<title>Getting Hung - How to Get Your Artwork Shown</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:55:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Making art is not a business. But making a living from your art depends upon the business of showing it to sell it. The options for getting your work shown fall into four main categories.]]></description>
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<title>How to Make Gray and Brown Paint Using Primary Colors</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:46:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Red, Blue, Yellow - the three Primaries vibrate with colour in our minds even as we read their names. But did you know that the Neutrals - Gray and Brown can be made by mixing Primaries? There's just one big Trick to it: you might end up with Mud! Here's how to avoid that.]]></description>
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<title>Genius - Three Ways to Be One</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:33:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are often told that anyone can achieve success. If you want it enough. If you try hard enough. If you have the talent. Yet many talented and dedicated people never achieve Fame or Fortune in their chosen field. What makes one person a recognised genius and another an also-ran? We know the genius must possess two things. I think there is a third.]]></description>
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<title>Colour - Using the Wheel</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:37:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The painting shows a sunny day in the countryside where two women and their children wander through an open field. A summery sky filled with fluffy white clouds is bordered by a row of dark trees that almost hide a distant farmhouse. The grassy field, scattered with wild poppies, fills the entire foreground. What do we see in terms of colour scheme in this painting?]]></description>
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<title>Last Flight of Charles Kingsford Smith - A Tragic End to the Dream</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:37:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At the dawn of powered flight, many of those watching developments were convinced that the first success would come from Australia, where an inventor named Lawrence Hargrave had made exciting discoveries about the advantages of the curved wing and the vertical tailplane in 1892. Fate reserved the golden ring for the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and Hargraves is largely forgotten.]]></description>
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<title>First Around-the-World Flight - Charles Kingsford Smith and the Impossible Dream</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:01:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Before any of the famous feats of daring, the great Firsts in the story of human endeavor, can be undertaken, one thing is required of the Hero: To dream the impossible dream. Like The Man of La Mancha on his donkey, like Sir Francis Drake in The Golden Hind, so a young aviator born before the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk dreamed of being first to fly around the world.]]></description>
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<title>5 Ways to Economize at Home During Economic Hard Times</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:22:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Anyone whose parents or grandparents lived through previous global Depressions of the 1930s or 1890s can tell you that wives and mothers hold the key to their family's survival. Here are 5 simple bits of wisdom handed down through the generations.]]></description>
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<title>Economic Meltdowns - What Can We Learn From Depressions of the Past?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:54:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[George Bernard Shaw famously said that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. The French put it this way: 'The more things change, the more they stay the same.' The current financial situation that is causing anxiety and suffering across the developed world is not a unique event.]]></description>
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<title>Body Surfing - Five Strange Facts About Its History in Australia</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:09:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Strange as it now seems, Australian beaches were empty of body surfers until the dawn of the twentieth century. Since swimsuits had not yet been invented, laws regulated all public bathing to accord with early colonial standards of public decency.]]></description>
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<title>Most Unusual Australian Cowboy of the Nineteenth Century - Who Would You Pick?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:59:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A slim, redhaired girl who rode sidesaddle is a top contender on any list. Hannah Glennan was called Annie by her parents but she was to become famed in folklore as 'Red Jack.']]></description>
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<title>The True Identity of Mona Lisa Was Never a Secret!</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 12:54:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From time to time, even reputable journals run yet another sensational story about a 'new' identification of the woman in the world's best-known painting. Do you ever wonder why these stories are published?]]></description>
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<title>Does Arthritis Mean You Must Give Up Painting?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:33:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Here are five fairly simple tools that could help you decide to stick with your art. They were developed during the four decades since I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. I call them the ABC of tools for painters with arthritis.]]></description>
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<title>Drawing and Painting From Photos - It Can Be a Trap</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:48:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Until you are thoroughly acquainted with the structure of the body, you can so easily fall into the trap of copying a misleading photograph. To illustrate that point, just look in the sports section of your newspaper any day and you'll see a truly gifted racehorse passing the post on one or more seemingly broken legs!]]></description>
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<title>Drawing the Human Figure - How to Get Started</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:48:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learning the basics of human anatomy will help you to draw any animal, because we are all built to the same basic design. Until the time of the Renaissance, no systematic study of anatomical structure had been made. Painters struggled to represent people or dogs or horses in a believable, realistic manner on the two-dimensional canvas. They all failed.]]></description>
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<title>The Good Earth 3 - Painting on Linen</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:36:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The day will come when nothing else but linen will satisfy you, and you'll be glad you're already familiar with the techniques for stretching and painting on canvas. As an organic fabric, any canvas absorbs moisture, swelling as it does so, and stretches or sags with the pressure you apply while working on it. Not a worry; that's just natural.]]></description>
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<title>The Good Earth 2 - Painting on Canvas</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:36:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At some point, a fellow artist or, more usually, your framer will suggest you 'upgrade' to canvas glued to your wallboard panels. This, they tell you, will make your work look more professional and attract higher prices, while still keeping that rigidity you've learned to love. I fell for this at one stage and I can tell you it is not a good move.]]></description>
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<title>The Good Earth, 1 - A Ground For Your Painting</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:36:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Farmers and gardeners know that the ground they work determines the success of the crops they plant. The crop will not reach its full potential unless the ground is properly prepared. So, it is a great pity that many artists neglect the preparation of the ground for their paintings.]]></description>
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<title>Do You Really Want to Be Homogenous?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:25:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It seemed like a good idea for bottled milk but it means we miss out on more than the cream that used to gather at the top of the old-style milk bottle. Being homogenised may be good for mass-market milk, not so good for people. In a globalised world, identity is more important than ever before, to all of us.]]></description>
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<title>Can You Write Love-Letters?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 10:27:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you have ever sent a note of appreciation to someone you admire, then you qualify as a writer of love-letters. When you think about it, fan-mail is a kind of love-letter writing.]]></description>
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<title>Feeding the Wildlife - Should We Do it?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:30:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For 20 years after building our hilltop home, we carefully refrained from feeding the wildlife that shared their rain forest territory with us. The accepted wisdom warned that doing so would make the wild creatures dependent on handouts. They would lose their skills at finding food for themselves and, if we should stop providing for them, they would starve.]]></description>
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<title>It's a Record! - Your Art Business Records</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:33:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[My father often told me that being able to make art is a Gift meant to be shared. In order to share it, artists have to put their work out on the open market. Once you do this, and achieve sales, you realise that your vocation has become a business. To run it successfully, you need to keep records.]]></description>
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<title>It's a Record! Keeping Track of Your Artwork</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:55:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When we start out as artists, the last thing on our minds is the problem future biographers may have in cataloguing our body of work. Our concern is with making the art, developing our distinctive style, and finding the subject matter that passionately engages us. Who ever started out thinking s/he would end up another Michelangelo? So, who cares about keeping records of the art we make at the beginning of our career? Let me tell you who will care:]]></description>
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<title>Why is the Mona Lisa the Most Famous Painting?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:55:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You may have heard someone say: 'I would not have a reproduction in my home. If I cannot afford the original, I would rather have nothing!' But being an art snob makes no sense. Better to enrich your walls - and your life - with reproductions of great art than nondescript originals that were only chosen because the price was right.]]></description>
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<title>The Quickest Way To Cut The Art Fog - Is It A Print Or Reproduction?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:01:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How do you know you have bought a genuinely Limited Edition? Until a stringent form of regulation is agreed by all nations, you will have to rely on the honesty of the artist and/or the publisher.(This is one reason why the highly principled artist is often the publisher as well.) It is a fair bet, though. No artist lightly risks his/her reputation.
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<title>Gallery Browsers - Enjoying Your Visit</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:35:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A private gallery seems to raise all kinds of nervousness. Some visitors lurk in the doorway, ready to bolt if the gallery staff make a move in their direction. Some answer a Good Morning smile from the gallery person with an apologetic 'I'm only looking.' Sometimes the refrain is uttered in a defensive tone that clearly translates as 'Don't think you can pressure me into buying anything.' Some folk, bless their hearts, ask 'Is there an admission charge?']]></description>
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<title>Colour - Get It Right, First Time</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:37:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We have all experienced this when we were starting out: You are well along with a new painting when you realize that Something is Wrong! The problem will be due to one or both of two things: An unbalanced composition or a lack of colour harmony.]]></description>
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<title>All Too Solid Flesh - Painting the Figure</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:14:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Unless you are a vegan, or have never been in a kitchen, you already know the colours of flesh. You have seen the gray/white through pink to blood red of fish, fowl and red meats - all stripped of their skin. But even in a Life class, your models will be wearing their skins.]]></description>
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<title>Using the Star - An Easy Way to Good Composition</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:14:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Did you ever look at a painting half-completed on your easel and think: Something's wrong! But try as you will, you cannot figure out what that something is. Nine times out of ten, the problem you have will be caused by faulty composition. The success of an artwork depends on the thought you put into the composition of the piece.]]></description>
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<title>The Oldest Profession - No, Not That One!</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:26:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In his 2006 Australia day speech,Prime Minister John Howard called for a return to the teaching of History AS A NARRATIVE in our schools. Mr Howard deplored the current emphasis by classroom teachers on ISSUES, with the facts often heavily revised to fit politically correct fashions of the day.]]></description>
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<title>Artist Paradise - Cairns - Tropical North Australia</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:51:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Art experts who visit Tropical North Queensland often castigate the local artists for using what they call 'a poster paints' approach to this spectacular landscape.With a fine disregard for the opinions of experts, The Great Artist floods this corner of the planet with ultramarine, cerulean and viridian green, all seemingly 'straight from the tube.']]></description>
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<title>The Painted Portrait - What is So Hard About it?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:16:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most people tend to answer: 'Getting the likeness.' But any experienced, successful, and honest portrait painter can tell you that 'getting a likeness' is purely a matter of careful observation and measurement of the physical proportions of your sitter. A human subject can, and should be, assessed by the artist in the same way as you would a landscape, still life or any other subject for a painting.]]></description>
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<title>Gallery Monsters - Could This Be Someone You Know?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:33:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A cautionary tale about the way some people behave in art galleries. Things are not always as they might appear. You might break the tender heart of an artist with a thoughtless remark. You might get your nose punched in return.]]></description>
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<title>How to Price an Artwork - The Vital Question - Or is it?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:18:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It has been famously said that - 'An artist's reputation is only as big as his price tag. 'Much as we may deplore the crassness of that, we have to recognise the truth of it in the public perception. And so, artists all come to a point when they wonder how to increase that 'price tag.' How is it set?]]></description>
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<title>Life After 'Larry' - How Our Backyard Wildlife Fared After the Cyclone</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:47:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What happens to the Bush and its wildlife following a Category 5 cyclone? This is how Nature responded with a miracle of recovery after cyclone 'Larry' swept through tropical North Australia.]]></description>
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<title>How Artists Can Avoid 'Writer's Block' - What Shall I Paint?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:54:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How can aspiring painters develop their own style and generate the enthusiasm to keep them going for a lifetime of making Art? One decision can make a powerful difference.]]></description>
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<title>Speaking in Public - How to Take it in Your Stride</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:30:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is a secret truth that will let you stand up confidently to speak in front of any audience. It is powerfully effective but so simple that most people will not believe it can work for them.]]></description>
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<title>Making Memorable Art - The Power of Story</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:09:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you don't like Modern Art, is it truly because you're just too dumb to understand it? The real reason may lie in an ancient human need.]]></description>
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<title>How to Get Started As an Artist - What is Holding You Back?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:41:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many people spend a lifetime wishing they had followed their secret dream. The greatest obstacle lies at the very start - knowing how to take the first step towards making that dream a reality.]]></description>
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