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	<description>Collaborations in Art by Gabe Lueders and Dave Selden</description>
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		<title>Plywood Downs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Sarah and I first moved to Portland, we had an apartment on SE Belmont. It was a great location, and had a great backyard for parties, with a raspberry bush within arm&#8217;s length of the picnic table I built (my first real woodworking project, and one that is still doing good service today).

One year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Table</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend Sarah and I joined friends Thom and Amanda on a tour of Portland&#8217;s modern homes. In the home I was most enamored of, I spotted this interesting coffee table. How do you think it&#8217;s held together? I didn&#8217;t feel it was appropriate to try pulling pieces off, but I did lift it with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Studio Visit: Constantin Brancusi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In one of my many experiments on the now-all-but-abandoned DaveSelden.com, I had a somewhat regularly occurring feature I called &#8220;Studio Visits,&#8221; where I documented visits I made to other artists&#8217; studios, with lots of photos and minimal text. Other artists&#8217; workspaces are usually so private, and it&#8217;s interesting to see how the setup differs based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trapezoid Coffee Table</title>
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This is a site specific table that I am making for our neighbor, hence the unusual shape.  The spindle legs are perhaps a little more traditional of a style then what I would normally make but it was a fun project to work on and figure out.  The spindles themselves are not square [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make an End-Grain Cutting Board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[End-grain cutting boards are a step up from the simpler long-grain versions, because the end grain provides a milder cutting surface for the knife. They are also a bit more work to make, but not too hard, as you can see from the photos below.
I keep a special pile of scrap that&#8217;s about the right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angel&#8217;s Landing</title>
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8&#8243; x 13&#8243;
Oil on panel
The painting is of a place in Zion National Park in Southern Utah.  The park was absolutely beautiful.    I actually climbed out to the peak in the center of the painting.  It was a crazy hike, with 2,000 ft. drop offs on either side of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Field Easel</title>
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This is a field easel I have been working on.  I attached the camera mount piece to the wood easel.  It clips in and out of the tripod very easily.  The idea was to make it as simple and light weight as possible, yet sturdy enough to handle a canvas that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Combination Chop Saw and Table Saw</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walking around Bruges on my recent Europe trip, I spotted this interesting tool near a construction job site. It&#8217;s a combination table saw and chop saw. Not probably the best thing in the world for building fine furniture, but I bet the owner of this tool likes carrying one tool around instead of two! Pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return to Life Drawing</title>
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9&#8243; x 11.5&#8243;
Charcoal on paper
I used to do a lot of life drawing back in college but have not done much of it recently.  A friend of mine organizes a group and I joined them for the first time today.  It was a really good experience and the two hours just flew by. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emmett Valley Study #1</title>
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8&#8243; x 13&#8243;
Oil on panel
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