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		<title>Minch 28: Mid Summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marion Boddy-Evans, Mad Cat Art Studio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shock, horror, not only isn&#8217;t there any Prussian blue in this painting, there isn&#8217;t any blue whatsoever! The dominant colour is quinacridone burnt orange (PR206, quite a transparent colour), which I think looks more like an earthy red than orange. I found it looking in the drawer for a spare tube of white, and suspect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madcatartstudio.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6466262&amp;post=4044&amp;subd=madcatartstudio&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Two Sketchbooks for a Walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marion Boddy-Evans, Mad Cat Art Studio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took two different sketchbooks out for a walk to Rubha Hunish, one a Moleskine with watercolour paper and the other a wire-bound sketchbook with Khadi paper. The latter is rough rather than smooth, and more absorbent once you&#8217;ve dampened the sheet. I rushed the sketching somewhat as the wind was freezing my fingers. Certainly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madcatartstudio.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6466262&amp;post=4053&amp;subd=madcatartstudio&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snow-Topped Hills</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marion Boddy-Evans, Mad Cat Art Studio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking up the hill to the coastguard hut at Rubha Hunish, the snow-topped peaks of Harris suddenly popped into view, giving me an excuse to stop a Kodak moment.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madcatartstudio.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6466262&amp;post=4033&amp;subd=madcatartstudio&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Studio Cat Thinking Outside the Box</title>
		<link>http://madcatartstudio.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/studio-cat-thinking-outside-the-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marion Boddy-Evans, Mad Cat Art Studio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most contrary of all the studio cats has decided he doesn&#8217;t want to be inside the fabric kitty house. Thinking outside the box, perhaps? Or, for those who remember the ad, he&#8217;s not inside, he&#8217;s onnnnn top!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madcatartstudio.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6466262&amp;post=4011&amp;subd=madcatartstudio&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minch 27: Memories of a Sunny Summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marion Boddy-Evans, Mad Cat Art Studio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost month on from winter solstice, days feel more like &#8220;not quite so short&#8221; rather than &#8220;longer&#8221;. But soon enough it will again be a day when there&#8217;s more daylight than night, when the Minch glistens with silvery-golds. In the meantime, I&#8217;ve memories of summer&#8230; I used iridescent white across the whole composition, so when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madcatartstudio.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6466262&amp;post=3986&amp;subd=madcatartstudio&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Live in a Rothko Painting #6</title>
		<link>http://madcatartstudio.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/i-live-in-a-rothko-painting-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marion Boddy-Evans, Mad Cat Art Studio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heavy rain-and-hail showers hide the horizon, drawing a line on the sea. The wind adds flecks of white onto the water. Photo is grainy because I took it at ISO 1600, to compensate for handholding in the low light.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madcatartstudio.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6466262&amp;post=3980&amp;subd=madcatartstudio&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photographic Evidence: A Hole in the Sky</title>
		<link>http://madcatartstudio.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/photographic-evidence-a-hole-in-the-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marion Boddy-Evans, Mad Cat Art Studio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a dark rainy afternoon, two sets of clouds made it look as there was a hole in the sky. Two things flashed into my mind: Chicken Licken&#8217;s The Sky&#8217;s Falling! and dwarves concerns about falling into the sky upon emerging from underground.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madcatartstudio.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6466262&amp;post=3969&amp;subd=madcatartstudio&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yet More Progress on “Towards the Shiant Isles”</title>
		<link>http://madcatartstudio.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/yet-more-progress-on-towards-the-shiant-isles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marion Boddy-Evans, Mad Cat Art Studio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most evident tweaks since the last photo are on the slipway and figure. I also tweaked the horizon to ensure it was straight, darkened the sea around the Shiant Isles, and added cerulean blue to the water in various places. I&#8217;m at the &#8220;are we there yet&#8230;?&#8221; phase and will leave this painting for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madcatartstudio.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6466262&amp;post=3961&amp;subd=madcatartstudio&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Progress on &#8220;Towards the Shiant Isles&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://madcatartstudio.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/more-progress-on-towards-the-shiant-isles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marion Boddy-Evans, Mad Cat Art Studio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweak, step back, step forward, tweak, step back, step forward&#8230; repeat innumerable times. No wonder I enjoy having gentle music playing in my studio as a backdrop to this rhythm. I don&#8217;t yet consider this painting finished, merely another step on from where it was (see previous photo). I need to check at the colours [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madcatartstudio.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6466262&amp;post=3954&amp;subd=madcatartstudio&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Painting in Progress: Towards the Shiant Isles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marion Boddy-Evans, Mad Cat Art Studio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This painting is inspired by the view looking north from the Camus Mor slipway, one of my favourite spots. It&#8217;s a rugged, rocky shoreline, with a small, battered concrete slipway, where the sea curves around the headland and into the bay. In the distance the Shiant Isles, which change so much in different lights and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madcatartstudio.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6466262&amp;post=3941&amp;subd=madcatartstudio&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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