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<title>Griffin And Lioness by Melissa A Benson</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:23:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/griffin-and-lioness-melissa-a-benson.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/griffin-and-lioness-melissa-a-benson.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>A Griffin and a Lioness gaze out over the ocean with a dramatic sky in the background and rocks below the precipice they are on.</div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Thick Paint Abstract by Melissa A Benson</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:12:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/thick-paint-abstract-melissa-a-benson.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/thick-paint-abstract-melissa-a-benson.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>This fun, colorful Abstract Expressionist image has swirling eddies of thick paint in pink and lavender accented by screaming reds and lime greens in a pattern reminiscent of retro lava lamps

Hang it anywhere you want a splash of color to sing out...</div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Summer Mosaic by Melissa A Benson</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:01:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/summer-mosaic-melissa-a-benson.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/summer-mosaic-melissa-a-benson.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>This colorful graphic pattern sure to brighten up any room in your house or cottage. Reminiscent of summer fun on the beach. Hang it anywhere you want a splash of color.

Bright vivid blues and aquas accented by screaming reds and subtle greens arr...</div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Phoenix Rising by Melissa A Benson</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:56:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/phoenix-rising-melissa-a-benson.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/phoenix-rising-melissa-a-benson.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>A Phoenix is a strikingly beautiful and remarkable bird with the ability to rise from the ashes of it's funeral pyre to be reborn and live it's 5 - 6 century life cycle again.ltbrgtltbrgtThis Phoenix is seen rising up from the smoke and ash with the ...</div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Revan Ramstedder by Melissa A Benson</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:14:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/revan-ramstedder-melissa-a-benson.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/revan-ramstedder-melissa-a-benson.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>This is a large Conan type blonde barbarian falconer. He is holding out his arm for an impressive bird of prey soaring in for a landing on his heavily gloved hand. He wears a black leather vest with celtic bosses and dangling feathers, a wide belt wi...</div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Gothic Country House From Night Bridge by Melissa A Benson</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:11:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/gothic-country-house-from-night-bridge-melissa-a-benson.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/gothic-country-house-from-night-bridge-melissa-a-benson.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>At first glance, this appears to be a night scene with night blooming Datura, but the sky is seen in daylight.

The combination of lighting and perspective create a mysterious and unsettling effect.

This is one of my surrealistic commission piec...</div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Elven Mage by Melissa A Benson</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/elven-mage-melissa-a-benson.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/elven-mage-melissa-a-benson.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'> Colorful autumn leaves swirl around an Elven Mage as he practices his magic. He is wearing blue, green and purple ceremonial robes and a Green Man mask with pheasent feathers.</div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Holly Elf by Melissa A Benson</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:32:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/holly-elf-melissa-a-benson.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/holly-elf-melissa-a-benson.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>A beautiful green elf with raven black hair, red lips and a radiant smile. She has holly leaves growing out of her forehead and wears holly with bright red berries in her ears. Snowflakes fall and there is a background graphic suggesting frost.ltbrgt...</div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Intimidation by Melissa A Benson</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:52:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/intimidation-melissa-a-benson.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/intimidation-melissa-a-benson.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>This intimidating werecat stands before you with a wicked grin. He is clad in leather armor with many pointy accouterments which he knows how to use.
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<title>Golden Tiger Eyes by Melissa A Benson</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:17:22 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/golden-tiger-eyes-melissa-a-benson.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/golden-tiger-eyes-melissa-a-benson.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>This was a commission piece. The client mailed me a hard cover journal with blank pages. The image is a close up of a tiger's snarling face with the emphasis on the eyes.

Tiger Eyes is a black and white piece done with several weights of graphite ...</div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Night Bridge by Melissa A Benson</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:59:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/night-bridge-melissa-a-benson.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/night-bridge-melissa-a-benson.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>At first glance, this appears to be a night scene with night blooming Datura in the foreground, but both sky and water are seen in daylight. The combination of lighting and odd perspective creates a mysterious and unsettling effect.

Each house in ...</div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Tethered Sphere by Melissa A Benson</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:55:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/tethered-sphere-melissa-a-benson.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/tethered-sphere-melissa-a-benson.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>This is a colorful sphere resembling a planet which is secured with metal bands. It is suspended over water tethered by ropes tied to three humming birds flying underwater. On the horizon is a mountain range with a dramatic sky.

It is a perfect co...</div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Glass With Melting Fork by Melissa A Benson</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:14:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/glass-with-melting-fork-melissa-a-benson.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/glass-with-melting-fork-melissa-a-benson.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>A surrealistic study in colored pencils of a glass with a melting fork. The melted metal eventually spills over the edge and pools in the bottom of the image.

This piece is part of the Jonathan Little Collection which he commissioned.

If you ar...</div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Merlin by Melissa A Benson</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:33:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/merlin-melissa-a-benson.html'><img src='http://fineartamerica.com/images-small/merlin-melissa-a-benson.jpg' style='float: left;' border='none;'></a><div width='400px;' style='float: left; padding-left: 10px;'>It is said that Merlin acquired his great magical powers from his demon father. He was trusted council to King Arthur where he wielded as much power as the king himself.

His death, like his birth are equally mysterious. He is seen here as a young ...</div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Lady Ettard by Melissa A Benson</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:10:40 GMT</pubDate>
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Lady Ettard is one in my series of "Camelot Legen...</div></div>]]></content:encoded>
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