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		<title>The Longest Mural In Phoenix</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/12/21/the-longest-mural-in-phoenix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 01:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So sometime last summer James Day recommended Hugo Medina’s Phoenix Festival of the Arts mural project to me.  You know how it is.  Awash in the lazy days of summer I said yes, and December was so far away.  LOL. So as the date of the Phoenix Festival of the Arts crept up I got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child of the Sea Care Bear for Red Brunch</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/11/12/child-of-the-sea-care-bear-for-red-brunch/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/11/12/child-of-the-sea-care-bear-for-red-brunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sounds like the title of a rock ballad. Its not though.  The Red Brunch is a charity event organized by Aunt Rita’s benefiting various AIDs related charities on World AIDs Day, December 1, 2012.  To buy tickets etc got to RedBrunch.org. About a week ago, Nancy Hill of Gallery Hazel in DoPho contact me and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The code — use it.</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/11/08/the-code-use-it/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/11/08/the-code-use-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insane Imaginings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[artist life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self development project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My art website has been around for more than a decade.  You can find cartoons dating back to 1993, I think.  The problem with having a website maintained by only one person, namely me, over that length of time, is that inertia makes it hard to make big changes. The larger the website became the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Longest Mural in Phoenix AZ?</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/09/18/longest-mural-in-phoenix-az/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/09/18/longest-mural-in-phoenix-az/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insane Imaginings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abstract art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art event]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dragon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jake beckman art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jake Beckman to help create the longest mural in Phoenix AZ Hugo Medina of HugosArt.com, has invited AZ Contemporary Artist, Jake Beckman, to participate in his Community Mural Project, which will be live during the Phoenix Festival of the Arts.  Hugo wants to create the city’s longest mural.  So far 75 local artists have signed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#twitterartexhibit ambassador!</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/09/11/twitterartexhibit-ambassador/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Howdy Everyone As you know I have participated in both #twitterartexhibit events.  My first submission was #twitterartexhibit, which benefited a library in Moss, Norway, enabling them to purchase library books for children.  My first submission became part of a permanent display in the library. The second submission was cherish, which benefited a women’s crisis center [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imperfect Action</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/07/05/imperfect-action/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/07/05/imperfect-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 02:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We artists are an interesting lot.  Many artists wait for the fire to strike before laying the brush to canvas, but not all.  Some of us plan our work in such detail the completed canvas is in our mind’s eye before we ever lay the brush to the canvas. Either way, many of us wreck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t paint it black</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/05/08/dont-paint-it-black/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/05/08/dont-paint-it-black/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 04:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am often asked about my framing options-I don’t offer a whole heck of a lot-I usually frame with a white or off-white mat in a narrow black corporate style frame. If the work doesn’t need a mat I usually frame with a simple wooden frame having no fancy fillets, coves or bevels. People ask [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping it Loose, the Golden Light</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/04/09/keeping-it-loose-the-golden-light/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/04/09/keeping-it-loose-the-golden-light/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Cogitation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bird art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expressionist art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Making a Splash]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://akajake.com/blog/?p=1197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am generally paint things tight.  Every brush stroke and color has a predetermined place to land. I don’t usually paint outside the lines.  I have been working on becoming more painterly, more expressionist.  One  stretch in this direction is painting abstractions, but the other is just painting a little looser. My latest foray into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scorpion &amp; The Frog</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/03/17/the-scorpion-the-frog/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/03/17/the-scorpion-the-frog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fibonacci]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[parable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penrose sun]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite fables is the one of the Scorpion and the Frog. It basically says some will be true to their nature no matter how they are treated or what the consequences are.   Variations of the story swap a youth, man, kangaroo or turtle in place of the frog, and/or a snake in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winds of March</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/03/12/winds-of-march/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2012/03/12/winds-of-march/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a little something new I just finished Its called Winds of March. I’ve been working on 11 inch x 14 inch cold press watercolor paper because I bought a brick of 75 sheets of Fabriano watercolor paper in this size. I usually coat both sides of the watercolor paper with gesso; otherwise the paper [...]]]></description>
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