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		<title>Art Award entries</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s my two entries for this years City of Belmont Art Awards, finally finished and framed<br /><br /><img src="images/watchingtheswans.jpg" width="342" height="485" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />&#039;Watching the swans&#039; ( Tomato Lake ) <br /><br />oil on canvas<br /><br />$2,400<br /><br /><img src="images/socceratsundown.jpg" width="477" height="337" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />&#039;Soccer at sundown&#039; ( Tomato Lake )<br /><br />oil on canvas<br /><br />$2,400<br /><br />as always - photo&#039;s don&#039;t do them justice]]></description>
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		<title>Art Award Entry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s some early progress shots of my two entries for the upcoming City of Belmont Art Awards<br /><br /><img src="images/belm1a.jpg" width="333" height="491" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="images/belm2a.jpg" width="405" height="268" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />both are going to be scenes of Tomato Lake, in Belmont]]></description>
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		<title>New Stuff .....</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve been working hard on a big series of new paintings for my upcoming exhibition in August at <a href="http://www.emerge-art.com.au/" target="_blank" >EMERGE Art Space</a>.<br /> <br />We&#039;re keeping the images under wraps until the show so I can&#039;t post any here, to make sure we have the correct level of amazement, awe and flurry of buying activity that will no doubt occur when we finally do reveal them on opening night!<br /><br />so to keep everyone happy, here&#039;s some OTHER new stuff I&#039;ve been doing ...<br /><br />Making an etching press !<br />It still needs a steel plate to stop it from destroying itself in excitement when I tighten it too hard and the top part cracks.<br /><br /><img src="images/pressmake1.jpg" width="294" height="392" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />might work, might not, needs a drill bit attached to the winder so it can be raised and lowered (much) quicker<br /><br />Hold your breath for fun little etchings of toy ducks in the not too distant future <br /><br /><br />Cutting a gas bottle in half to make a furnace, to melt metal, to fill the moulds I make from the small wax sculptures I posted earlier<br /><br /><img src="images/gas1.jpg" width="294" height="392" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />and the thing next to it is ...<br />Making a baby kiln from the guts of a hair dryer . This is part of the mould to pour the refractory into to house the element<br /><br />again, it might not work but it&#039;ll be fun to make<br /><br /><img src="images/kilnmake1.jpg" width="294" height="392" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />and ...<br />Playing with my new Kiln !<br />( outside, ofcourse )<br /><br /><img src="images/kiln.jpg" width="294" height="392" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />but mostly painting, painting painting painting<br /><br /><br /><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Art Award Entry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s the finished piece, just need to varnish and frame<br /><br /><img src="images/ptwmelsm.jpg" width="512" height="273" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />(update)<br />The wonderful City of Melville purchased this piece for their collection on the night of the Melville Art Awards this weekend,<br />I&#039;m really happy that it&#039;s going to join another of my paintings that they purchased a couple years ago, hopefully they&#039;ll hang together !]]></description>
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		<title>Art Award entry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some progress on my entry for this years Melville Art Awards<br /><br /><img src="images/ptwmel2.JPG" width="474" height="254" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="images/ptwmel1.jpg" width="474" height="254" border="0" alt="" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small sculptures</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s something else I&#039;ve been slowly working on :<br /><br /><img src="images/gduck.jpg" width="418" height="277" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="images/gduck2.jpg" width="414" height="354" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />The small ducks are going to be bottle openers and the trout and wolf heads will be knife pommels, all cast in brass after I make the moulds<br /><br />These are wax copies that came out of silicon moulds that I made from the originals ]]></description>
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		<title>New Duck painting</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="images/4duck2web.jpg" width="346" height="402" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />Just finished the latest Duck painting<br /><br />Oils on canvas, 90 x 80cm<br /><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Commission</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s a commission I recently finished , each of the two paintings is 110 x 130cm<br /><br /><img src="images/joel1web.jpg" width="512" height="207" border="0" alt="" />]]></description>
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		<title>Progress shots</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another duck painting on the way<br /><br /><img src="images/4duck1web.jpg" width="350" height="397" border="0" alt="" /><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Website update</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The website has recently been updated with new paintings, which are in the &#039;Latest Work&#039; section and through some of the Galleries<br /><br />I&#039;ve also released four new large Limited Edition Canvas prints - see the &#039;<a href="http://bensherar.com/prints/index.html" target="_blank" >Prints</a>&#039; section for details<br /><br /><img src="images/prints4.jpg" width="512" height="352" border="0" alt="" />]]></description>
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		<title>New works</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three new paintings I&#039;ve done to show a gallery who are interested in hosting my solo show mid 2010<br /><br />The top one isnt finished <br /><br /><img src="images/em1.jpg" width="512" height="352" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="images/em2.jpg" width="346" height="450" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="images/em3.jpg" width="350" height="458" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />This is what insomniacs take photo&#039;s of at 2am]]></description>
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		<title>Big Commission</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s some shots of a big commission Im working on ,<br />due in 7 days .....<br /><br /><img src="images/file.jpg" width="375" height="500" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="images/file-1.jpg" width="512" height="384" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="images/file-2.jpg" width="512" height="384" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />Two canvasses , both 1.1 x 1.3m]]></description>
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		<title>New Rottnest painting</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="images/bathurst.jpg" width="406" height="306" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />&#039;Bathurst Lighthouse - Rottnest Island&#039;<br /><br />oil on canvas <br /><br />130 x 180cm<br /><br />$7,200<br /><br />On display at Fremantle Contemporary Art Gallery , 255 South Terrace South Fremantle<br /><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to work</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="images/pallete4.jpg" width="250" height="374" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />This years Back Garden Art Exhibition was a great success !<br />Thankyou to all the people who came along <br /><br />There&#039;s a few orders for the new prints that Ive been planning , so thats gotten me motivated to get those organised and as such ...<br /><br />NEW LARGE CANVAS PRINTS ARE ON THE WAY !<br /><br />Two new Rottnest prints and Two new Cottesloe prints will be released as soon as theyre back from the printers ( hopefully in a few weeks ), I&#039;ll change the &#039;Prints&#039; page and announce it here , aswell as contacting those of you that expressed interest<br /><br />Now its straight back into the studio to get stuck into the 3 commissions and 4 gallery requests that Ive got to finish before the end of the year !]]></description>
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		<title>ANNUAL BACK GARDEN ART EXHIBITION !! Scroll down for details !</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="images/garden2.jpg" width="371" height="440" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />ITS ON AGAIN !<br /><br />SUNDAY the 15th of NOVEMBER is my annual Back Garden Art Exhibition<br /><br />Running from 10am till whenever the sun goes down , we&#039;ll have a range of new and old artworks on display , plus framed and unframed prints , boiled quail eggs and pizza straight from the new pizza oven !<br /><br />For those of you who found out about the show from the Melville Times - they&#039;ve run an article with the wrong date,<br />The exhibition is on SUNDAY, NOT SATURDAY as stated in the article ( although , last years article went in the week AFTER the exhibition, so I guess its an improvement )<br /><br />So if you&#039;re in Perth , use the contact form to get the address and come along and snap up a bargain]]></description>
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		<title>Finished</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This ones finished ready for varnish <br /><br /><img src="images/beach13.jpg" width="306" height="374" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />Another small one ready for the show .<br />The photo doesnt really show the colours in this painting no matter what lighting I try<br /><br />34cm x 27.5cm<br />No title or price yet]]></description>
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		<title>Finished</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished this one yesterday &amp; put it in the frame :<br /><br /><img src="images/beach12.jpg" width="321" height="321" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />Oils on canvas board<br /><br />$300 framed<br /><br />will be on display at my Garden Exhibition ( if it doesn&#039;t go beforehand )]]></description>
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		<title>Two Chillies</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just finished these two small ones of Cambuci chillies , they need frames then they&#039;re ready for the show<br /><br /><img src="images/chilli4.jpg" width="244" height="366" border="0" alt="" />]]></description>
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		<title>Progress Shots</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s shots of three of the new beach scenes , the first two are almost finished<br /><br /><img src="images/beach16.jpg" width="302" height="326" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="images/beach15.jpg" width="310" height="342" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="images/beach14.jpg" width="309" height="474" border="0" alt="" />]]></description>
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		<title>New small painting </title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s a small one I finished today :<br /><br /><img src="images/beach8.jpg" width="279" height="280" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />Untitled as yet , oil on canvas board<br /><br />15cm x 15cm<br /><br />for sale - $300]]></description>
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