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Painter Kirk Lybecker

Artist Kirk Lybecker likes to work with watercolors, but sometimes traditional watercolor technique doesn't render the bright colors and vivid details he prefers. For that, he uses an airbrush. His paintings are realistic images of flowers, as well as city scenes and junkyards.

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Ranch Painters

Judy Hoiness, Marlene Alexander and Pat Ortley are friends and long-time artists and art teachers. From their homes in Bend and Sunriver, the three venture out together to paint the old and abandoned farms and homesteads of Central Oregon.

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Prison Wood Artists

A program at the Oregon Correctional Facility in Salem is teaching inmates the art of intarsia. It's a process for making three-dimensional images from pieces of wood that fit together like the pieces of a puzzle. Art Beat meets some inmates at work.

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Train Lover Kent Haley

Since childhood, Kent Haley has loved trains. He began making models as a young man, and continued during his career as a minister. Now retired, Reverend Haley also paints historically accurate images of trains of the past.

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