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<title>Magical Intersect by Laurie Salmela</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:22:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/magical-intersect-laurie-salmela.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/magical-intersect-laurie-salmela.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>The title says it. The painting represents things real but not visible felt or sensed but not seen.&nbsp;</div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Rain On The Ruby Mountains by Laurie Salmela</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:15:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/rain-on-the-ruby-mountains-laurie-salmela.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/rain-on-the-ruby-mountains-laurie-salmela.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>Rain on the Ruby Mountains is about this particular place but that awe inspiring experience of watching the rain fall on a distant spot from the vantage point of a dry and sunny spot.  I painted this from the memory of  an uninterrupted view of a sto...&nbsp;</div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>She Danced The Tango by Laurie Salmela</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:07:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/she-danced-the-tango-laurie-salmela.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/she-danced-the-tango-laurie-salmela.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>This is a painting that started as an experiment in color and texture and my subconscious and the paint took over and the bird, snake and dancer appeared from the mass of abstract shapes. Maybe you can see other images, too. I hope so.&nbsp;</div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Prayerful Moment by Laurie Salmela</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:52:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/prayerful-moment-laurie-salmela.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/prayerful-moment-laurie-salmela.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>This painting is about a quiet, contemplative moment in time.&nbsp;</div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Man On The Edge by Laurie Salmela</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:47:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/man-on-the-edge-laurie-salmela.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/man-on-the-edge-laurie-salmela.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>This is an abstract transparent acrylic painting with a connection to nature. Its about a man on the edge. On the edge of what' You decide.&nbsp;</div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Exxon Impact I by Laurie Salmela</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:39:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Deadfall by Laurie Salmela</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:36:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/deadfall-laurie-salmela.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/deadfall-laurie-salmela.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>Deadfall is an abstracted rendition of a segment of forest in northern Wisconsin.
It 's emphasis is on texture and light play rather than rendering the details of a specific place.&nbsp;</div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Exxon Impact Ii by Laurie Salmela</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:38:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Isles Revisited by Laurie Salmela</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 16:12:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-isles-revisited-laurie-salmela.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/the-isles-revisited-laurie-salmela.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>A fellow painter and I spent the afternoon painting in oils by a Lake of the Isles backwater.  We had a wonderfully shady with level ground and a visiting flock of Mallards who would swing by for a visit every so often. I finished the realistic versi...&nbsp;</div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Ranch House by Laurie Salmela</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 16:05:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>South Beach by Laurie Salmela</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 16:03:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Miami by Laurie Salmela</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 16:01:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Abstract Fruit by Laurie Salmela</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 15:58:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/abstract-fruit-laurie-salmela.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/abstract-fruit-laurie-salmela.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>This is a less conventional, more playful treatment of the classic still life with fruit.  Its more about fun than fruit.&nbsp;</div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Sunlit Floral by Laurie Salmela</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 15:37:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/sunlit-floral-laurie-salmela.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/sunlit-floral-laurie-salmela.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>Do you know the feel of the warmth of the sun on your skin  and smell the sweet fragrance of flowers on the warm soft air'  That's what I was trying to portray in this watercolor.  Something to remind a person of the promise of summer even in the dep...&nbsp;</div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Arrangement In Red And Yellow by Laurie Salmela</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 15:30:38 GMT</pubDate>
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