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		<title>Kingston’s 16th Annual Artists’ Soapbox Derby</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kingston, NY, is right in the center of the largest artist community outside New York City. This makes for a lot of artist activity.
One of the most delightful and hilarious is the annual Artist Soapbox Derby, which just had its 16th run down the steep hill of lower Broadway last Sunday.  Brakes are more important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Forsberg, mastering oil sticks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Encaustics]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Pigment Sticks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Gallery at R&F]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Forsberg demonstrates how Pigment Sticks are both a drawing and painting medium like no one else.

Charles frequently returns to drawing, forcefully striking marks into the  heavily manipulated buttery paint, then tearing it apart, alternating in  a push-pull sequence of drawing and smearing, scraping back, revealing  previous drawing marks, and piling what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Annual Encaustic Painting Conference at Montserrat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>richard</dc:creator>
		
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There are a number of things about the Annual Conferences of Encaustic Painting at Montserrat College of Art that amaze me, and a good deal of the credit goes to its founder and director, the indomitable Joanne Mattera, who began building a network of painters back in 1999 with her book, The Art of Encaustic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R&amp;F at Rileystreet&#8217;s 14th Annual Art Materials Festival 6/26</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heather</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Demonstration Events]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[artist materials]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Eileen P. Goldenberg]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Encaustic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[R&F Handmade Paints]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Come out this Saturday, June 26th from 10am-4pm and Paint

This coming Saturday artist Eileen P. Goldenberg will be representing R&#38;F at Rileystreet&#8217;s 14th Annual Art Materials Festival  in Santa Rosa, CA.  Eileen will demonstrate various materials, techniques, and uses of  encaustic paint from 10am-4pm.

Rileystreet Art Supply
103 Maxwell Ct.
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
p. 707.526.2416
e. info@rileystreet.com
There will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing New Studio-size 40ml Encaustic Cakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heather</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[New Products]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[40ml.]]></category>

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Interested in sampling colors or building your palette? Our new, smaller, 40ml  studio-size encaustic cakes offer a practical solution.  These heavily pigmented, ready-to-use paints are of the same quality that you know and love.  They are available in all of our 80 colors, along with our existing 104ml and 333ml sizes.
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		<title>Congressman Hinchey Visits R&amp;F to Speak about HIRE ACT</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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On Monday, June 7, 2010, at eleven a.m., R&#38;F Handmade Paints in Kingston was host to New York State Congressman Maurice Hinchey, who held a press conference to talk about the HIRE ACT, which the congressman helped to pass and which was signed into law by President Obama on March 18, 2010. The Congressman spoke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Encaustic by the Ancient Method-Visting Artist Francisco Benitez</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>richard</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Encaustics]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[The Gallery at R&F]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Fayum]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Paint]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[paintings]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[technique]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about our visiting artist workshop program is the opportunity to acquaint other artists with unique approaches to encaustic painting.

Francisco Benitez, from Santa Fe, taught a class on encaustic portraiture June 2nd thru 4th here at R&#38;F.  Switching from oils to encaustics a number of years ago prompted him to pursue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R&amp;F Update: Partnerships for a New Era</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 14:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heather</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Production News]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Customer Update]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[partnerships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[R&#38;F Update: Partnerships for  a New Era 
At  R&#38;F Handmade Paints we have always prided ourselves on being an  artist-focused business. Over the last twenty-two years much of the  growth and success of R&#38;F has been due to the loyal support of you,  our customer.  In recent years our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>None of your Beeswax? Of course it is!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>richard</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Technical Information]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[bleaching]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[filtered]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[filtration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical grade]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[raw materials]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[terms]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[unrefined]]></category>

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 There are so many questions that keep popping up about the materials that we use, where they come from, and how they are processed.  When we talk about beeswax,  terms such as Pharmaceutical grade, bleaching, refined and filtered are commonly used.  This blog seeks to offer up the materials definitions that are most important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming Encaustic Demonstration Events in CT and WA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heather</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Demonstration Events]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[artist materials]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[demonstration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dick Blick]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Encaustic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jerry's Artarama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kristin Swenson-Lintault]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Leslie Giuliani]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oilstick]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paint]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[R&F]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[R&F Handmade Paints]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark your calendars!
Saturday, May 1st from 1pm-4pm
This coming weekend R&#38;F has teamed up with Jerry&#8217;s Artarama in West Hartford, CT and artist Leslie Giuliani for a demonstration of materials and techniques in Encaustic Painting on Saturday, May 1st from 1-4pm at:
Jerry&#8217;s Artarama of CT
1109 New Britain Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06110
860-232-0073
Leslie will demonstrate the uses of [...]]]></description>
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