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There are a lot of new paintings in this month's project gallery. All sorts of subjects, from woods to cliffs, pots to oranges and rice. Enjoy!

• Sunrise by LorraineMae
• Arches National Park by Bearc
• Driving JD's Tractor
• Oranges and Apple by Annilina

• Four Tomatoes by Glenda Chaconas
• Sunset in Woods by Preety
• Snowy Woods by Lee House
• The Cliffs by Beata Patrycja
• Flamingos by Meenakc
• Three Comice Pears by Yover

• Still Life with Pots by Geoffrey Mills
• Three Out of Three by Carmen M Rivera
• Bowl of Rice by Nicky

I was reading an article on things to do before selling a painting and got stuck on the point about ensuring I had taken an art capture before I let the painting out of my hands. Got to love jargon that makes things fancier than they are, like calling it a giclée print not an inkjet print.

An art capture is taking a photo or scan of your painting (or slide, if you've still got a film camera) so you've got a top-quality image you can reproduce. Good advice, but does this mean my camera is an art capture mechanism, and the memory card in it an art capture transferral system?

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