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		<title>Tom Bombadil and the Walking Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz Paintings</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This week I wanted to focus on a piece that exemplifies my process of constructing an artwork.  I think that this drawing, Tom Bombadil and the Walking Man Enjoying a Cup of Morning Tea, does just that. Tom Bombadil (pictured below, on the left) is one of my favorite characters from the Lord of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinksphinx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7911520&amp;post=1085&amp;subd=pinksphinx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bygone Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz Paintings</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After going though my digital archives, I wanted to share four quiet landscapes, painted in 2007-2008. In March of 2005, Mount St. Helens had another in a series of minor eruptions.  At the time, I lived in the hills overlooking Portland, Oregon, and had a great view of St. Helens from my studio window.  One [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinksphinx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7911520&amp;post=1054&amp;subd=pinksphinx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Blue Monday, for Kurt Vonnegut</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz Paintings</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2007, I made this portrait of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in the days following his death.  Vonnegut’s book, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), influenced my personal philosophy, and remains one of my favorite novels of all time. Saddened by his death, I wanted to honor him with a painting.  So, I made an imagined portrait [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinksphinx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7911520&amp;post=1030&amp;subd=pinksphinx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retrospect 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz Paintings</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2011, I made hundreds of drawings, paintings, and designs while living in Mae Sot, Thailand.  Many of these works served different purposes.  Some were made for a job or were part of the process of making a commissioned piece. Other images were personal notes, sketches, or were part of a larger body of work.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinksphinx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7911520&amp;post=980&amp;subd=pinksphinx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Night Paintings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 10:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz Paintings</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this Christmas day, I would like to share two small paintings, and the studies that went into their making.  Both are images of clear winter nights.  The first work features a white cottontail nestled safely into tall grasses.  In the sky behind it is the Big Dipper, the constellation comprised of the seven brightest stars [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinksphinx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7911520&amp;post=921&amp;subd=pinksphinx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Butte Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz Paintings</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blue Butte is another in a series of eight paintings made for a short silent film, now in production. It features one of the famous Mittens Buttes in Monument Park, Utah, as well as the Orion constellation. Often, when I am conjuring imagery for an artwork, I will see small flashes of compositions, which I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinksphinx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7911520&amp;post=873&amp;subd=pinksphinx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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