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Northwest wonder

This Penn State University graduate, Michelle Ramin works daytime at a little locally run art supply store and makes art as often as possible in Portland, Oregon.
She plays drums with a band called The Black Globes. Music and art and people and traveling and amazing foods and the ocean all have formed her and [...]

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Striking wash-and-line works

A commercial fisherman who turned to art in later life, Doug Kinney’s views on Port Orford, Oregon, has changed since moving here 17 years ago.
“It rains here, but we get a lot of the rain at night, and there’s wind, but you do things in the morning before it comes up,” Says he, “I [...]

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Daring something different and delightful

Rare indeed is the boat art in a different medium. Rob Mason of Mendocino, CA, has mastered the etching, something I explored myself early in my artistic development. Mason’s blog includes his etchings and drawings as well as books he has published featuring his art. ‘Up Mowry’ shows his own boat the Gambella in [...]

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Grand Effects by Gloria Miller Allen

Born in Kansas, Allen has lived in Idaho since 1974. Her love of watercolors started in first grade and became her full time occupation. She feels her talent benefited from several years’ working for Hallmark Cards Litho Art Department in Kansas.

While working boats are only one of several subjects that she loves, her passion, superior [...]

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