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		<title>A UFO here and a UFO there</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I discovered five UFO’s in my studio and I just about freaked out.

UFO’s are the dreaded “Un-Finished Objects” which every decorative painter tries to avoid but sometimes doesn’t succeed! These are the projects which get put off from one day to another until they are hidden from plain sight and forgotten. I discovered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artezan.com/blog/?p=379</link>
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		<title>Leaves and nothing but the leaves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best ways to perfect a new technique is to paint it over and over again. And the best way to practise is on a proper basecoated surface – not scraps of paper.
I always have several basecoated rectangular and round MDF pieces (which will make great placemats, by the way!) lying around. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artezan.com/blog/?p=369</link>
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		<title>Back in full swing!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello again! I’ve been away in Kuala Lumpur on a family emergency the last 7 weeks. I’m back at the studio and classes are in full swing from April 19th onwards. 
Things are looking good at the Studio &#8211; I have to catch up on some unfinished classes but looking forward to designing some new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artezan.com/blog/?p=376</link>
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		<title>Roses for your Valentine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Valentine’s day and roses. What a perfect combination.
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I love roses. And I had wanted to learn to paint roses from the very first&#160; decorative painting class I joined. I think I made my teacher laugh! 
When I started teaching, I only taught roses as a second class…but for a couple of enthusiastic students, I broke [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artezan.com/blog/?p=323</link>
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		<title>Class Calendar 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to post this “Class Calendar” because this is how it is in Kuwait – everyone travels, including me. So with the calendar, at least you will know when classes are available and can book in advance. Lets not let the year slip by without any meaningful painting OK?

All classes are&#160; from 10am to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artezan.com/blog/?p=314</link>
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		<title>Painting on a canvas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometime back, I developed a penchant for painting on canvas instead of the usual MDF or wood items I had been used to.
It all started one day when I realised that I didn’t have time to basecoat an MDF item to paint a new project in class with my students. I thought of painting on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artezan.com/blog/?p=291</link>
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		<title>First Daisies at a Taster Class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first &#34;Taster Class&#34; of 2010 was a great success. The girls painted the brand new &#34;Girlie Daisies&#34; project on an MDF plaque.
Being first-time painters, they were quite naturally nervous at first but the good thing about painting in a group is that you get to motivate each other and learn from each other.


Basecoating is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artezan.com/blog/?p=281</link>
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		<title>Girlie daisies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I painted this very “girlie” daisies project for a “taster” class in Kuwait which will start this week. Its a very simple project which everyone will be able to finish in two sessions of three hours each.
 
A “taster” class is exactly that – a class to get a taste of decorative painting! In two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artezan.com/blog/?p=257</link>
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		<title>The studio is refurnished!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The studio has a new look, with country-style wooden shelves and cupboards which I reclaimed from our study! I think it is more at home in my studio than the study because its all high-tech there and very country here *LOL*
 
The cupboards I “re-claimed” are L-shaped and fitted just nicely into the corner where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artezan.com/blog/?p=266</link>
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		<title>Making your new painting old</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Items that you have decorated by painting may actually become family heirlooms and why not, after the love and care you put into painting it, right? It may actually get a chance to look really old like an heirloom should be or, you can actually make it look old, like an heirloom, right now!
One of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artezan.com/blog/?p=227</link>
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