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		<title>Latest Drawing is complete</title>
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I&#8217;m very excited to share this new drawing in my Stones series.  Will you look at those colors!  It&#8217;s so stunning when the  pale, discreet colors of the rocks become submerged in water.  This still life has a straight above, bird&#8217;s eye view, and the bowl is cropped; in comparison to the Amber Bowl, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dlfriedman.com/myblog/2010/03/08/latest-drawing-is-complete-2/</link>
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		<title>Amber Bowl wins First Place in the Artists Magazine&#8217;s On-line Media Competition</title>
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My colored pencil drawing &#8220;Amber Bowl&#8221; was awarded First Place in the Graphite, charcoal and colored pencil category of the Artists Magazine&#8217;s On-Line All Media competition.  I am so honored to receive this recognition for my work, especially as there are so many fine entries for them to judge from.  I spoke with Chris McHugh, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dlfriedman.com/myblog/2010/03/03/amber-bowl-wins-first-place-in-the-artists-magazines-on-line-media-competition/</link>
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		<title>Azure Bowl &#8211; work in progress, stage two</title>
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Here is an installment after two weeks of work.  I approached the beginning of this drawing in the same fashion as the still-life that I featured in my blog post of October 15, 2009.  I worked in the background first, and then started in on the bowl from the outside in.  This will leave the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dlfriedman.com/myblog/2010/02/11/azure-bowl-work-in-progress-stage-two/</link>
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		<title>Starting a new drawing on Rtistx board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I start a new drawing on paper, I jump right in and start laying out the drawing directly on the drawing surface.  Not so with a sanded surface, such as the Rtistx board I&#8217;m using for my new drawing of stones in a bowl of water.  The sanded surface is nearly impossible to erase [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dlfriedman.com/myblog/2010/02/07/starting-a-new-drawing-on-rtistx-board/</link>
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		<title>On to new work</title>
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Here is a new painting I&#8217;ve started, a &#8220;rock slide&#8221;.  I set this up inside an antique wooden crate, and lined the back of the crate with some very dark paper.  The top photograph shows very initial oil washes to reinforce the pencil layout.  The second photograph shows a second layer of oil washes, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dlfriedman.com/myblog/2010/01/24/on-to-new-work/</link>
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		<title>Small oil painting of stones</title>
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Happy New Year to all!  I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been over a month since my last entry.  It was a busy and fun holiday season, especially with my older son home from college and all of us together as a family, but I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s over and we can move back into our &#8220;normal&#8221; schedules [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dlfriedman.com/myblog/2010/01/17/small-oil-painting-of-stones/</link>
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		<title>Stones in Vase with Water/Drawing</title>
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Okay, it&#8217;s not very often that I will unabashedly state that I love one of my drawings.  I love this drawing!  I was so skeptical when I started it that it was going to amount to anything.  If you look at the last post, you can see that the prelimary background work is nebulous.  There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dlfriedman.com/myblog/2009/12/14/540/</link>
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I&#8217;ve started a new drawing and I find it interesting to note how different my approach is to this one compared to a similar one I recently completed.  Both are of stones in glass vases, but in the first one I drew the rock and glass first and the background last.  With this newest drawing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dlfriedman.com/myblog/2009/12/11/533/</link>
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		<title>Completed Stones drawing</title>
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Here is a photograph of the latest drawing I&#8217;ve been working on &#8211; an array of stones.  I really did get them to balance like that!  My friend, the photographer Jan Reiss, dubbed me &#8220;Andrea Goldsworthy&#8221;.  I love environmental art &#8211; organic matter arranged in nature and then photographed, or visited before it vanishes.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dlfriedman.com/myblog/2009/12/02/completed-stones-drawing/</link>
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		<title>Second oil painting of stones</title>
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I&#8217;ve just finished the second oil painting of stones, and am happy with my progress.  There were several things I was looking to accomplish -  better blending and change of colors in the background, more realistic colors and details in the stones.  Believe it or not, this stone pile was photographed on the same bookbinding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dlfriedman.com/myblog/2009/11/20/second-oil-painting-of-stones/</link>
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