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	<description>Art and photography by Patrick S. McKenna</description>
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		<title>New stuff, new show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got accepted into the Lynnwood Library show! I&#8217;m so excited! I&#8217;m also a little blown away (is that possible? It really seems a contradiction in terms) that I&#8217;ve entered three times (2007, 2008, 2010) and was accepted all three. I wanted to enter in 2009, but I was, sadly, too busy buying a house [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Studio time that&#8217;s NOT fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the morning taking photos of my jewelry&#8211; I&#8217;ll be selling that later on when I have more pieces. I discovered that I really don&#8217;t like photographing my own work. I love my camera, I love getting a great nature shot or interesting scene, and I love editing photos I&#8217;ve taken. But staging, lighting, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.papermanstudio.com/blog/2010/08/07/studio-time-thats-not-fun/</link>
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		<title>I did it!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished the collage for the Lynnwood Library show and got it submitted. Whew! Now we&#8217;ll see if it&#8217;s accepted. You can see a larger version here and on my Portfolio page (click on the pic twice from that page). For reference, I used a beautiful photo by Heather Thompson of Belle Etoile Designs, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.papermanstudio.com/blog/2010/07/30/i-did-it/</link>
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		<title>Deadline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Discovery: It is extremely difficult to cut and control long strips of tissue paper while there is an oscillating fan in the room. I am racing to get a piece finished in time to make the July 31 submission deadline to the Lynnwood Library Gallery Themed Exhibit and the weather is hot. So I&#8217;m in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coolest thing I&#8217;ve seen this week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ArtTrader Magazine- Free PDF of a quarterly magazine full of articles, how-tos, art, reviews, workshop notices, and more (because I haven&#8217;t yet had time to go all the way through it). Also, the site offers online fee-based art workshops. ArtTrader seems predominantly focused on ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) and mail art, but a cursory glance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.papermanstudio.com/blog/2010/07/22/coolest-thing-ive-seen-this-week/</link>
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		<title>I wish it would rain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am having an olfactory hallucination of how the desert smells on a hot day when it starts to rain. I don&#8217;t love being in the desert, but I love that smell.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.papermanstudio.com/blog/2010/07/21/i-wish-it-would-rain/</link>
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		<title>One degree of Facebook, and the subjectivity of art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are so many, many interesting people in the world; it&#8217;s too bad we won&#8217;t have time to meet most of them. Just track back a few &#8220;likes&#8221; on your Facebook page and you&#8217;ll find fascinating profiles of people who are intelligent and/or clever and/or downright brilliant. I wish they were my friends. It also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.papermanstudio.com/blog/2010/07/09/one-degree-of-facebook-and-the-subjectivity-of-art/</link>
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		<title>Love that long weekend!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will be heading for the studio this weekend and will, hopefully, have something to show for it by Tuesday! I&#8217;m going to be working on my submission for the Lynnwood Library Gallery show using a photo by Heather Thompson of Belle Etoile Designs as inspiration&#8211; with her kind permission, of course. I hope it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.papermanstudio.com/blog/2010/07/02/love-that-long-weekend/</link>
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		<title>Thought for the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to have a lot of time on my hands; now I have too many hands on my time.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.papermanstudio.com/blog/2010/06/30/thought-for-the-day/</link>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t art, therefore I am not . . . am I?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can I call myself an artist when I haven&#8217;t created anything artistic in over a year? Does a website count? What about marketing materials I made at my day job? Does that count? I think of myself as an artist. I always have new ideas. I don&#8217;t carry a sketch book. I bought new materials [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.papermanstudio.com/blog/2010/06/28/i-dont-art-therefore-i-am-not-am-i/</link>
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