When duck hunters take to Connecticut’s rivers and coastlines next year, they’ll carry hunting stamps printed with a painting of two surf scoter ducks flying across blue-green waves near a lighthouse. Artist Chet Rensen, of Lyme, was the first Connecticut resident to win the state competition from which stamp designs are chosen, and the triumph was a long time coming — his painting took 54 years to finish. Reneson, 83, explains that he first painted the surf scoters in 1962 for a federal duck stamp competition. He knew the competition as “the million-dollar duck,” for its potential to balloon an artist’s sales. Renson had just graduated from the University of Hartford Art School. He was broke, jobless and good with a brush.
from News http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Duck-painter-s-early-work-pays-off-12453485.php
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