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	<description>Kali Tal's fine art and photography weblog</description>
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		<title>Tiny Accordion Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A have a lot of double-sided hand-painted acrylic paper, and I thought I'd try cutting it into strips and creating an small accordion book. I always like the idea of combining text and images, and the sequential folds, with paint spilling from page to page, were conducive to free writing. <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/tiny-accordion-books/">Tiny Accordion Books</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Series &#8211; Exercises in Abstraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've always had a hard time loosening up and "letting art happen," and instead often find myself stuck after attempting to micro-manage every aspect of what I'm planning to do. As an exercise, I started working on a series of four abstracts based closing my eyes and moving with unrestrained gestures. I worked on all four abstracts in the same fashion, at every stage. <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/blue-series/">Blue Series &#8211; Exercises in Abstraction</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Andalucia art journal</title>
		<link>http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/andalucia-art-journal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kali</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gesso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[image transfer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lighthouse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last May I took a driving trip through Andalucia with my husband. I took a lot of photos and when I got home I decided to turn them into an art journal. I've posted the results in a new gallery. <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/andalucia-art-journal/">Andalucia art journal</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in Abstraction</title>
		<link>http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/adventures-in-abstraction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kali</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[acrylic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fluid acrylics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[masking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I started a new series of paintings based on movement and intuition.  It&#8217;s a new thing for me &#8212; painting from my gut instead of my eyes and my head. The truth is I think too much and I talk too much, and so I&#8217;m trying to just shut up and [...] <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/adventures-in-abstraction/">Adventures in Abstraction</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>June 4 Workshop &#8212; Fabrics in Collage</title>
		<link>http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/june-4-workshop-fabrics-in-collage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ June 4, 2011; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Fabrics aren't just for sewing! You can make journal pages out of them, collage them into your journal pages, decorate them with paints, stamps or beads, and use interesting fabric patterns as a basis for your own designs. Dig through your fabric collection and bring your favorite scraps to class! &#160; <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/june-4-workshop-fabrics-in-collage/">June 4 Workshop &#8212; Fabrics in Collage</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop &#8211; Transfer Techniques</title>
		<link>http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/workshop-transfer-techniques/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ March 5, 2011; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Create transfers from photocopies, to do direct transfers onto acrylic paint and gesso, and other methods of transferring images. Some of these techniques take multiple days, but most can be completed in just an hour or two. None require any previous experience. Bring black &#38; white photocopies of images that you would like to [...] <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/workshop-transfer-techniques/">Workshop &#8211; Transfer Techniques</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop &#8211; Making Backgrounds with Collage</title>
		<link>http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/workshop-making-backgrounds-with-collage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ February 19, 2011; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Paint isn't the only way to create a background image for an Art Journal page. In this class we'll explore the art of collaging to create a surface for paint, ink, and other media. If you already have paper images that you would like to use, please bring them to class.  But because [...] <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/workshop-making-backgrounds-with-collage/">Workshop &#8211; Making Backgrounds with Collage</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing Mixed Surfaces with Acrylic &amp; Resists</title>
		<link>http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/preparing-mixed-surfaces-with-acrylic-resists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ February 5, 2011; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] In this workshop you'll gain a familiarity with acrylic foundations that create texture.  We'll experiment with grainy and smooth pastes, and you'll learn how to impress patterns into them to create wonderfully textured backgrounds for your journal pages.  We'll also work with resists, which are prevent the acrylic from staining certain parts of the paper, [...] <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/preparing-mixed-surfaces-with-acrylic-resists/">Preparing Mixed Surfaces with Acrylic &#038; Resists</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Art Journaling &#8211; T.S. Eliot&#8217;s &#8220;Burnt Norton&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/art-journaling-t-s-eliots-burnt-norton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kali</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Burnt Norton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Four Quartets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first read &#8220;Burnt Norton&#8221; when I was about 15 years old, and it blew me away.  My dad had read me the section of James Joyce&#8217;s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man about 4 or 5 years earlier, and that had become the standard I used to think of infinity and the [...] <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/art-journaling-t-s-eliots-burnt-norton/">Art Journaling &#8211; T.S. Eliot&#8217;s &#8220;Burnt Norton&#8221;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Art Journaling – William Blake’s “Tyger Tyger”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on a series of art journal pages based on my favorite poems.  &#8220;Tyger Tyger&#8221; was one of the first poems that ever captured my imagination, as a small child. My dad read it to me (and defined the word &#8220;symmetry&#8221; for me), and it was the first time that words ever evoked [...] <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.reconnaissanceart.com/art-journaling-william-blakes-tyger-tyger/">Art Journaling – William Blake’s “Tyger Tyger”</a></span>]]></description>
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