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beckymillerartist
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[2012-03-22 23:34:33 +0000 UTC]
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 18; Deviations: 107; Watchers: 77
Watching: 12; Pageviews: 8485; Comments Made: 157; Friends: 12
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Vincent Van GoghFavorite movies: Groundhog Day, Die Hard, Wolverine, Blazing Saddles, Silverado
Favorite TV shows: Carnivale, Breaking Bad, American Idol
Favorite bands / musical artists: Chris Cornell/Soundgarden/Audioslave, Pearl Jam
Favorite books: While Science Sleeps A Sweetener Kills
Favorite writers: Stephen King
Favorite games: Scrabble, Cribbage
Favorite gaming platform: Nintendo Wii
Tools of the Trade: Oil paints, brushes and canvas!!!
Other Interests: Nature, food, psychology, science, health
# About me
I have always known I am an artist. My mother jokes that my obsession with drawing began as soon as I was old enough to hold a pencil. From earliest years, my artwork has revealed a deep fascination with the organic movement and individual personalities that characterize all living things. I have turned the majority of my attention to detailed studies of kelp, sea life, and tidepools. My large oil paintings of colorful kelp that has washed up on the beach are a unique blend of realism and abstraction. I insist on painting solely from my own personal experience, so each painting is a true expression of the world as I see it.I have been obsessed with creating art for as long as I can remember, and have shown and sold my paintings and drawings in several galleries in California and Oregon. Over the past twenty-five years, in addition to creating my own fine art work, I have created several commissioned works of art, a large wall mural, numerous graphic design projects, and many book and cover illustrations.
In 2010, I entered four of my paintings in the 2010 Celebrate Arts show in Florence, Oregon. All four pieces won awards, including three Merit Awards and one Honorable Mention. I additionally had a one-woman invitational show at the Sylvia Beach Hotel in Newport, Oregon during the summer of 2011 and was juried into The Artist's Vision: A Juried Exhibit, part of the Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts in the summer of 2011, where I won an Honorable Mention. In late 2011, two of my paintings were juried into the “Celebrating Artistic Expression” exhibition at William Jessup University in Rocklin, California.
I was one of four artists-in-residence at Skybound Art Gallery in Toledo from July, 2010 through October, 2011. I am currently working in my own studio/gallery in Toledo’s fast-growing Arts District and am represented by Ozone Fine Art in Newport, Oregon and Ryan Gallery in Lincoln City, Oregon. I was also the featured artist for November and December, 2011 at Shearwater Gallery in Seaside, Oregon. In February, 2012, my artwork was the subject of a feature article in Willamette Living Magazine. I am an Associate Member of Oil Painters of America and serve on the Board of Directors for Toledo’s Annual Labor Day Weekend Art Walk, where I am in charge of the artist community’s marketing efforts.
I majored in Advertising Design at Pacific Union College in Angwin, California, where I studied painting and drawing under Roger Blum, and design, composition and art history under John Carstens. I also studied the human figure extensively for several years at Hipbone Studio in Portland, Oregon under Jeff Burke. I have additionally been mentored by my mother-in-law, well-known Western artist Vel Miller, and by Toledo artists, Douglas Haga and Michael Gibbons.
# Comments
Comments: 27
You've been featured here to help gain a bit more exposure to your art
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Jakub is a hobbyist from New Zealand who creates surrealist artworks using the digital medium. These fantastical pieces will ignite your imagination, as the artist plays with scale and form to render concepts that are unconventional and thought-provoking. There is a noticeable gravity in Jakub's technique, found in the use of muted tones and complex designs. Go check out this inspiring deviant, and partake in the interpretative challenges his paintings present.
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Becky is a fine artist from the U.S. with a distinguished career that has seen her be the recipient of prestigious awards and her work showcased in prominent galleries. Inspired by nature and the organic quality of liv 
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w HY DON'T YOU HAVE MORE WATCHERS
you deserve so many more!!!!
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I guess I just don't know how this site works! lol But thank you!
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HAPPY Birthday! to the best sea life painter I know! 
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You have Happily been featured!
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Wow! Very cool! Thanks!
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Sorry I wrote that double, your welcome!
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Thank you so much!!!
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Your work reminds me a lot of Mary Pratt's with its "more real than real qualities". Really interesting and beautiful stuff.
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I love your work!!! You are great, uh, there is a typo in the first paragraph 4th sentence I believe you have; hvae, for have...if that makes sense. I thought you might like the opportunity to amend that.
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