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		<title>Technique &#8211; Custom Stretcher Frames</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s tutorial is all about custom stretcher frames and how to build them. Personally I prefer building my own stretcher frames rather than buying them in pieces or pre-fabbed from the store. There are four reasons for this:
1. Stretcher bars bought in-store are not sturdy enough for my purposes. I stretch my canvas nice and tight. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technique &#8211; Acheiving Clean Lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s free painting tip comes from an experience I had whilst I was a student at York University. Let me give you some quick background info&#8230;
York U had it&#8217;s practical programming set up in such a way that in order to see an artistic discipline through to the end of your university career you had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technique &#8211; Layout With Watercolour Pencil Crayons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to show you a clean and easy technique I stumbled across for laying out an image on canvas before you start to do any painting. The cost is minimal and the fuss is almost non-existent.
So, the other night you were sitting around, doodling in your sketchbook and you came up with a killer image [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technique &#8211; The Power of Tracing Paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tracing paper has gotten a bad rap.  When I was a child I didn&#8217;t like tracing paper.  I didn&#8217;t like drawing on it.  I didn&#8217;t like trying to store it.  I think it was the impermanancy of the paper that turned me off.  I could see through it.  That allowed things that were underneath to [...]]]></description>
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