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		<title>Time Management: Life, Work &amp; Creative Pursuits</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I launched the Reader Survey to ask readers what they need, the need for time to create art quickly rose to the Number 1 position. Recently, a reader brought this subject up to me directly. This reader asked: How do artists handle time management? Many of us have homes, families, day jobs. Grocery shopping, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&#038;blog=1347663&#038;post=18213&#038;subd=artplantaetoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Martin J. Allen Discusses the Power of Seeing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin J. Allen is an award-winning botanical artist from the UK who creates larger-than-life paintings with exquisite detail. He has earned three gold medals from the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and has shown his work in exhibitions held in England, Germany and the United States. Martin&#8217;s paintings have been published in three books and are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&#038;blog=1347663&#038;post=17644&#038;subd=artplantaetoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The month-long opportunity to discuss nature education and how to use drawing as a learning tool in the classroom has begun. Follow the stream of comments where the conversation is happening or view the latest comment in the Recent Comments box now located in the column at right. John has started the conversation by asking&#8230; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&#038;blog=1347663&#038;post=17311&#038;subd=artplantaetoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Olcani: When Plants Are Medicine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art for conservation is Deborah Ross&#8217; passion. Deborah Ross is one of America&#8217;s leading wildlife artists and working in Africa has always been one of her dreams. In 1987, she had the opportunity to live her dream working as an illustrator for a baboon project. Deborah says she loved being in Africa. So much so, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&#038;blog=1347663&#038;post=17154&#038;subd=artplantaetoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How do you paint graceful and realistic stems in watercolor? Hazel West-Sherring tells you how!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hazel West-Sherring appreciates your questions and has replied to your questions and comments. Thank you to readers who participate in the learning opportunities presented each month with featured guests. These opportunities exist so that you can ask our guests questions directly and so you can connect with each other. Remember that your participation is always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&#038;blog=1347663&#038;post=16749&#038;subd=artplantaetoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin&#8217;s &#8216;The Origin of Species&#8217; to Become Illuminated Manuscript</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Natural history artist, calligrapher and science educator, Kelly Houle, is creating a large-scale illuminated manuscript based on Charles Darwin&#8217;s The Origin of Species. Each page will be designed as a work of art. All text will be written by hand and natural history illustrations will be illuminated with iridescent watercolors and 23-karat gold. The completed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&#038;blog=1347663&#038;post=16708&#038;subd=artplantaetoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Birmingham Society of Botanical Artists Answers Your Questions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judging by the questions received from readers, there is a lot of interest in creating botanical note cards. This month&#8217;s group Q&#38;A with the Birmingham Society of Botanical Artists (BSBA) focuses primarily on this topic. Today we&#8217;ll learn how BSBA members select an image for their cards, how they create a digital image of their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&#038;blog=1347663&#038;post=15915&#038;subd=artplantaetoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Write in Your Books?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t worry. You won&#8217;t get in trouble. Personally, I write in the margins of many things. I write all over the research papers I read and in the books from my personal library too. Some books are so full of information (like Karin Nickelsen&#8217;s book about 18th-century botanical illustrations), notes are a necessity because they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&#038;blog=1347663&#038;post=15135&#038;subd=artplantaetoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Helen Allen Discusses Traditional &amp; Contemporary Approaches to Botanical Art</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After raising her children, textile designer, teacher and caterer, Helen Allen, enrolled in the diploma course taught by Anne-Marie Evans in 1996. In 2003, she began to assist Anne-Marie Evans on the diploma course and in 2005, succeeded Anne-Marie as Course Director. Today this 17-year old program is taught by Helen and four other teachers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&#038;blog=1347663&#038;post=14248&#038;subd=artplantaetoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Students Share Thoughts About Distance Learning Programs in Botanical Art</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Ask The Artist with Anna Knights. Unlike past sessions in which readers submitted questions to visiting artists, this time readers mostly shared their experiences and thoughts about distance learning programs in botanical art. One reader asked Anna about how she enlarges her painting subjects. We will begin with this question and then jump [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&#038;blog=1347663&#038;post=14564&#038;subd=artplantaetoday&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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