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For an artist, bringing a viewer to tears is a triumph indeed, and painter Michele Davis, of Spokane, WA, has experienced the exultation of this moment more than once: "When someone sees my art…

  From the Old West to the Far East, world traveler Craig Whitcomb, who settled down in Lewiston, ID, captures it all in watercolor, pastel, graphite, acrylic, and color pencil, because, in…

Most people, in the midst of raising a family on a tight budget, have little time, money, or resources to seriously attack fine art oil painting, but this never daunted Dayton oil painter Marilu Bryan,…

From the time Carlos Acevedo was a little boy, he wanted to be an artist. He knew that he was an artist. But like many determined people with a strong dream and an equally strong personality to…

"It must be fascinating, being married to an artist!" This is one of those less than profound comments one encounters in social situations in which the speaker is really looking for someone else…

Sustainability: it's contemporary, fashionable, sensible, and beautiful, and for woodcarver Jordan Henderson of JDC Woodcarving, there is an art to doing it right. "I source all of my wood locally,"…

Water is one of our planet's most valuable resources, and other than air, it's probably one of our most vital. For Dayton landscape artist Judy Robertus, water is a focal point of her work: it is…

When you live in Alaska, what do you do with wood? For wood artists Pat and Peggy Bookey of North Pole, AK, you don't necessarily burn it, even though, according to Pat, "The lows here can be between…

Good things come in threes. Consider this: how many important decisions are made with the simple game, Rock, Paper, Scissors? There were three wise men, three Bronte sisters, and three muskateers;…

Those of us who live on the east side of the Washington State Cascade Mountains know that there is more to the Pacific Northwest than the city of Seattle. "Oh, it rains all the time over there,"…

Most people think of pecan shells as something to throw away after eating the nut within. For sculptor Ralph Trethewey, however, the material on the outside is far more valuable, and he has carved,…

  Van Gogh and wine -- they're both so delightfully European somehow. What starts in Europe, however, doesn't necessarily stay in Europe, and the Walla Walla area finds itself with its own version…

For sculptors Jon and Marilu Bryan, art is for the birds, literally. The Dayton couple, who operate under the name of Papa Jon's Fly Inns, create hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind birdhouses that look…