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She switched: After oil paints gave her severe headaches and nausea, artist Lillian Sarafincham switched to acrylics and stopped heavy use of turpentine and her problems disappeared
She switched: After oil paints gave her severe headaches and nausea, artist Lillian Sarafincham switched to acrylics and stopped heavy use of turpentine and her problems disappeared

She switched: After oil paints gave her severe headaches and nausea, artist Lillian Sarafincham switched to acrylics and stopped heavy use of turpentine and her problems disappeared

Date6/10/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: She switched: After oil paints gave her severe headaches and nausea; artist Lillian Sarafincham switched to acrylics and stopped heavy use of turpentine and her problems disappeared.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0104160F
She paints in acrylics, but artist Rita Letendre uses oil in her kitchen, especially when she's cooking her favorite Middle Eastern dishes
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Artist Janice Parkins paints one of her children
Artist Janice Parkins paints one of her children
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Toronto-born artist Judy Singer never paints same design twice on the dresses she creates
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On his wife's forehead, Salvador Dali paints the head of Medusa, one of the three snaky-haired Gorgon sisters who glance turned into stone everything (...)
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Illustration of a painter's palette with brushes. On the palette is an illustration of a man we ...
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Don Soloman and his 40-by-90-inch acrylic-on-canvas work Slow Roll, part of an exhibition of eight of the American-born artist's 'organic' paintings o(...)
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I was a Patsy, says Linda Belly, 21, arrested two years ago with more than three pounds of cocaine in her bag when she switched planes in Mexico City.(...)
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Another side of Carol Lawrence's life is shown here in her hotel room where she spreads her artist's equipment out and paints to fill her spare time in a constructive way while away from home
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Egg artist: Berg Yohnson, who learned the art of eggery from his great-grandmother, uses paint, ribbon and jewels to create eggs such as the landscape egg, right
Egg artist: Berg Yohnson, who learned the art of eggery from his great-grandmother, uses paint, ribbon and jewels to create eggs such as the landscape egg, right
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Neurologist Robert McPhedran, who is testing new drug to ward off migraine headaches, uses model to show where attack may be left.
Neurologist Robert McPhedran, who is testing new drug to ward off migraine headaches, uses model to show where attack may be left.
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