try { if (window.parent.parent.CSSInject) { var listLength = window.parent.parent.CSSInject.length; for(var i=0; i<listLength; i++){ var cssInjectUrl = window.parent.parent.CSSInject[i]; document.writeln("<style type='text/css'>@import url("+cssInjectUrl+");</style>"); }; } } catch (ex) {};document.writeln('<style id="tinc_basicrules" type="text/css">.teaser_feed_1 { width:450px } .teaserheader_feed_1 { padding:4px } .teaseritem_feed_1 { margin:12px 0px 2px 0px } .teaseritem_title_feed_1 { margin-bottom:4px } .teaserimage_feed_1 { margin:0px 12px 4px 0px; border:0px } .teaserimage_feed_1 { float:left } .subscription_buttons { margin-top:24px } .subscription_button { margin:0px 4px 4px 0px; border:0px } a#tinc_content { text-decoration:none }</style><style id="tinc_userrules" type="text/css">.teaser_feed_1 { width:500px; background-color:#F4F4F4; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif } .teaserheader_feed_1 { background-color:#000033; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:14px; } .teaseritem_title_feed_1 { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; font-size:12px; font-weight:bold; font-style:normal; } .teasertext_feed_1 { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; font-size:12px; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } .teaserlink_feed_1 { color:#CC0066; text-decoration:underline; font-size:12px; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } .teaserlink_feed_1:hover { color:#CC0066; text-decoration:underline; font-size:12px; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } .teaserlink_feed_1:link { color:#CC0066; text-decoration:underline; font-size:12px; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; }</style><div id="tinc_content" class="teaser_feed_1"><div class="teaserheader_feed_1">The Blog of Shauna Leva</div><div class="teaseritem_feed_1"><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/plaster-owl/" target="_self"><div class="teaseritem_title_feed_1">Plaster Owl.</div></a><div><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/plaster-owl/" target="_self"><img src="http://www.shaunart.net/tinc?key=OE25DEQE&amp;id=1&amp;size=s" width="1" height="1" class="teaserimage_feed_1" title="Plaster Owl." alt="Plaster Owl."/></a><span class="teasertext_feed_1">I&amp;#8217;ve been very drawn to owls lately. I love the way they look, and the many ways that they can be distorted and stylized but remain recognizable. So naturally, my last visit to Plaster-Fun-Time  had me painting an owl bronze. I wanted the owl to look metallic; lots of owls are brown, but I don&amp;#8217;t [...] </span> 				<a class="teaserlink_feed_1" href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/plaster-owl/" target="_self">more...</a><br style="clear:both"/></div></div><div class="teaseritem_feed_1"><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/new-pictures-in-galleries-and-more-on-flickr/" target="_self"><div class="teaseritem_title_feed_1">New Pictures in Galleries and more on Flickr</div></a><div><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/new-pictures-in-galleries-and-more-on-flickr/" target="_self"><img src="http://www.shaunart.net/tinc?key=OE25DEQE&amp;id=2&amp;size=s" width="1" height="1" class="teaserimage_feed_1" title="New Pictures in Galleries and more on Flickr" alt="New Pictures in Galleries and more on Flickr"/></a><span class="teasertext_feed_1">I have added a batch of new images to the galleries. Almost all sections have received additions. At this point, I think I have added just about everything I wanted to. But of course, new work will come as I make it. If you&amp;#8217;d like to see more pictures, you can visit my flickr account [...] </span> 				<a class="teaserlink_feed_1" href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/new-pictures-in-galleries-and-more-on-flickr/" target="_self">more...</a><br style="clear:both"/></div></div><div class="teaseritem_feed_1"><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/exciting-new-web-galleries/" target="_self"><div class="teaseritem_title_feed_1">Exciting New Web Galleries!</div></a><div><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/exciting-new-web-galleries/" target="_self"><img src="http://www.shaunart.net/tinc?key=OE25DEQE&amp;id=3&amp;size=s" width="1" height="1" class="teaserimage_feed_1" title="Exciting New Web Galleries!" alt="Exciting New Web Galleries!"/></a><span class="teasertext_feed_1">W00t! After weeks of learning and working and trying and re-trying, I finally fulfilled several of my web goals. I have learned how to build a simply website from scratch using HTML. I have learned some very handy basics of the coding language, and I have found ways to manipulate this knowledge into a working [...] </span> 				<a class="teaserlink_feed_1" href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/exciting-new-web-galleries/" target="_self">more...</a><br style="clear:both"/></div></div><div class="teaseritem_feed_1"><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/unique-homemade-necklace-from-a-thrift-store-find/" target="_self"><div class="teaseritem_title_feed_1">Unique, Homemade Necklace from a Thrift-store Find</div></a><div><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/unique-homemade-necklace-from-a-thrift-store-find/" target="_self"><img src="http://www.shaunart.net/tinc?key=OE25DEQE&amp;id=4&amp;size=s" width="1" height="1" class="teaserimage_feed_1" title="Unique, Homemade Necklace from a Thrift-store Find" alt="Unique, Homemade Necklace from a Thrift-store Find"/></a><span class="teasertext_feed_1">About a month ago, my mom and I went to go check out a new Thrift store in town. In a junk bin of miscellaneous jewelry parts, I found half of an old, fake watch. It was terribly dirty&amp;#8211;black even. But it was interesting non-the-less. I asked if I could have it for 50 cents [...] </span> 				<a class="teaserlink_feed_1" href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/unique-homemade-necklace-from-a-thrift-store-find/" target="_self">more...</a><br style="clear:both"/></div></div><div class="teaseritem_feed_1"><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/portrait-on-the-grass/" target="_self"><div class="teaseritem_title_feed_1">Portrait on the Grass</div></a><div><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/portrait-on-the-grass/" target="_self"><img src="http://www.shaunart.net/tinc?key=OE25DEQE&amp;id=5&amp;size=s" width="1" height="1" class="teaserimage_feed_1" title="Portrait on the Grass" alt="Portrait on the Grass"/></a><span class="teasertext_feed_1">New painting! This one is a commissioned piece. Its a portrait done from an old photograph. I restored  the colors and worked in washes at first to build up an underpainting, and then went in with my final colors and strokes. The face took me a very long time to get right because my reference [...] </span> 				<a class="teaserlink_feed_1" href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/portrait-on-the-grass/" target="_self">more...</a><br style="clear:both"/></div></div><div class="teaseritem_feed_1"><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/conquering-the-web-or-not/" target="_self"><div class="teaseritem_title_feed_1">Conquering the web….or not.</div></a><div><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/conquering-the-web-or-not/" target="_self"><img src="http://www.shaunart.net/tinc?key=OE25DEQE&amp;id=6&amp;size=s" width="1" height="1" class="teaserimage_feed_1" title="Conquering the web&#x2026;.or not." alt="Conquering the web&#x2026;.or not."/></a><span class="teasertext_feed_1">Geez. What a week. I was supposed to be on vacation, but instead I assigned myself an unreasonable amount of work to do. I decided, as I often do, that I am not yet completely satisfied with my web prescence. But what is a girl like me, with no coding experience to do? Well&amp;#8230;.a lot. [...] </span> 				<a class="teaserlink_feed_1" href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/conquering-the-web-or-not/" target="_self">more...</a><br style="clear:both"/></div></div><div class="teaseritem_feed_1"><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/i-did-it-again/" target="_self"><div class="teaseritem_title_feed_1">I did it again.</div></a><div><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/i-did-it-again/" target="_self"><img src="http://www.shaunart.net/tinc?key=OE25DEQE&amp;id=7&amp;size=s" width="1" height="1" class="teaserimage_feed_1" title="I did it again." alt="I did it again."/></a><span class="teasertext_feed_1">Once again, I have re-made my website, or at least the design. This time, hopefully, I will be happy with it for a little longer. The big change, and the big reason why I think this one will be one to keep for a while is the width of the layout. The old layouts were [...] </span> 				<a class="teaserlink_feed_1" href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/i-did-it-again/" target="_self">more...</a><br style="clear:both"/></div></div><div class="teaseritem_feed_1"><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/crazy-shoes/" target="_self"><div class="teaseritem_title_feed_1">Crazy shoes.</div></a><div><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/crazy-shoes/" target="_self"><img src="http://www.shaunart.net/tinc?key=OE25DEQE&amp;id=8&amp;size=s" width="1" height="1" class="teaserimage_feed_1" title="Crazy shoes." alt="Crazy shoes."/></a><span class="teasertext_feed_1">Yesterday I felt like drawing shoes. I started out with trying to come up with fairly normal, practical looking ones that were still somehow original, but the more I drew, the weirder things got. You can see me progression pretty clearly if you look from right to left, top to bottom. (I typically draw right [...] </span> 				<a class="teaserlink_feed_1" href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/crazy-shoes/" target="_self">more...</a><br style="clear:both"/></div></div><div class="teaseritem_feed_1"><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/free-snazzy-computer-wallpapers/" target="_self"><div class="teaseritem_title_feed_1">Free snazzy computer wallpapers</div></a><div><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/free-snazzy-computer-wallpapers/" target="_self"><img src="http://www.shaunart.net/tinc?key=OE25DEQE&amp;id=9&amp;size=s" width="1" height="1" class="teaserimage_feed_1" title="Free snazzy computer wallpapers" alt="Free snazzy computer wallpapers"/></a><span class="teasertext_feed_1">So not to long ago, when I was messing around in photoshoop, trying to learn new techniques, I started making wallpapers for my friends. I came up with a few cool ones, I think. So now, here they are for the world to see, and use if they&amp;#8217;d like! </span> 				<a class="teaserlink_feed_1" href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/free-snazzy-computer-wallpapers/" target="_self">more...</a><br style="clear:both"/></div></div><div class="teaseritem_feed_1"><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/itunes-album-art-in-commissions-gallery/" target="_self"><div class="teaseritem_title_feed_1">iTunes Album art in Commissions gallery</div></a><div><a href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/itunes-album-art-in-commissions-gallery/" target="_self"><img src="http://www.shaunart.net/tinc?key=OE25DEQE&amp;id=10&amp;size=s" width="1" height="1" class="teaserimage_feed_1" title="iTunes Album art in Commissions gallery" alt="iTunes Album art in Commissions gallery"/></a><span class="teasertext_feed_1">REFRESH TO SEE UPDATES ON SHAUNART.NET (if you are reading this from the main site, sometimes updates don&amp;#8217;t show up without a refresh. so do it now) But back to the post&amp;#8211; So, I&amp;#8217;ve told you all about this piece of work before, but I made you search your iTunes to see it. Now, the [...] </span> 				<a class="teaserlink_feed_1" href="http://shaunart.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/itunes-album-art-in-commissions-gallery/" target="_self">more...</a><br style="clear:both"/></div></div></div>');