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		<title>Garden Shop in Les Tuileries &#8211; Demo Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lynn Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little bonus to the Garden Shop in Les Tuileries demonstration. The story behind this painting and complete painting demonstration begins here. Related posts:Garden Shop in Les Tuileries – Part 3 of 3 Garden Shop in Les Tuileries &#8211; Part 2 of 3 Garden Shop in Les Tuileries &#8211; Part 1 of 3


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		<title>Garden Shop in Les Tuileries – Part 3 of 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lynn Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write I am listening to Erik Satie&#8217;s haunting music. It feels so like Paris. I think of my grandfather, an American art student in the École des Beaux-Arts in the early 1920s. The embrace of Luxembourg Gardens. The expansive warmth of Les Tuileries in the heart of Paris. A tiny garden shop. Sunlight. [...]


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		<title>Garden Shop in Les Tuileries &#8211; Part 2 of 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lynn Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first part of this series showing the progression of Garden Shop in Les Tuileries, I created a structure through drawing and provided a base for both the tonal qualities of the painting and a hint at the color through tinting and lifting. In this part I continue to build the painting by playing [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Chardin, Vermeer and Friends&#8221; sold before show opening</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lynn Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chardin, Vermeer and Friends, featured in the February issue of American Art Collector, was sold before the M Gallery of Fine Arts show opened. I had the great pleasure of meeting the new owners, a wonderful couple from upstate New York. I loved hearing them talk about the piece and what it meant to them. [...]


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		<title>Still Life Show Rollout: Meyer Lemon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lynn Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Straight from our garden, the Meyer Lemon is not like your normal store-bought lemon. Its skin is not as yellow. They are closer to gold but not quite orange. Their juice is sweet with a hint of orange through the tartness. The truth is I am infatuated by their look, especially when washed by the [...]


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		<title>Still Life Show Rollout: White Asparagus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lynn Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This bunch of white asparagus is from one of those wonderful markets in Paris. When we visit Paris we always stay in hotel where there is no kitchen. We cannot cook meals while there. In addition to that we generally find shopping for most things boring. So why do we spend so much time strolling [...]


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		<title>Flower Painting: &#8220;Second Spring&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lynn Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles is not always paradise. Where we live the street are often too crowded, the summers are furnace hot. Fall,commonly referred to as fire season, brings a few days - sometimes weeks - of dry, hot Santa Ana winds which blow with hurricane force. 

But one thing, a huge thing, LA has going for it is what I think of as its second spring. In nearly every other part of the country fall means leaves are turning, the grass is dying and winter is clearly on its way. It is now December and our grass is still green and our garden is a cloud of soft cream, pink and blue. Bougainvillea is in glorious deep magenta bloom. Hummingbirds feed on the flower nectar and Monarch butterflies stop to visit as they migrate from Mexico to northern California.

Two weeks ago I brought these roses in from the garden. Washed with early morning sunlight, the lure to paint them was too strong to ignore. I offer them to you as a gift of the season - our second spring.


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		<title>Shutters in Arles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lynn Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was something a little melancholy about Arles. Beauty is found there. At the heart of the city, I was surprised and impressed by the well preserved Roman amphitheater and the arena &#8211; which is undergoing a very dramatic restoration. Of course Arles&#8217; most famous &#8211; perhaps infamous &#8211; resident was Vincent Van Gogh. This [...]


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		<title>Sunshine Bowl &#8211; Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lynn Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sunshine Bowl&#8221; is now at M Gallery of Fine Art in Sarasota Florida, along with a few other of my paintings. &#8220;Sunshine Bowl&#8221; is of a copper bowl the we usually have on our mantle. We filled it an another larger bowl full of ripe lemons from a backyard tree. I am always surprised at [...]


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		<title>&quot;Petite Déjeuner de Pain&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lynn Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story behind the painting "Petite Déjeuner de Pain" by Michael Lynn Adams.


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