Is the loss of interest in fish and duck stamps, as some artists claim, a sign that no one is interested in wildlife art any more? Or have changes in taste and state economies driven stamp artists out of business? In the Wall Street Journal, Barry Newman writes about sporting art’s latest endangered species.

“To lure collectors, states issued a lot more stamps than they had hunters or anglers. A stamp glut compounded the print glut. The revenue stamps often cost more to print than they raised in revenue. As a result, Mr. Dumaine now counts 15 states that have eliminated duck stamps, on top of the 16 that have dropped their trout stamps.”

Club Of The Waves interviews Southern Californian surf painter and sculptor Phil Roberts about sidewalk art, his unique scientific illustrations, and what he hopes to communicate through his work:

“Figurative in any medium. I’ve always been drawn (pardon the pun) to the human figure and the challenge of capturing personalities since I started doing caricatures in high school. I’ve been very fortunate that my destiny as an artist has always been evident to me.”

Through April, San Francisco’s Gallery 28 will be displaying nearly 170 skateboard “decks” as part of their “Skate This Art” exhibition.

“There are decks with laminated collages of famous punk rockers, decks adorned with mosaics of colored glass and found objects, decks in silkscreen and bamboo, and a deck where a steel stencil was used and an image burned into the wood,” writes Julian Guthrie of The San Francisco Chronicle.

“‘We want to show that art is not limited to people who consider themselves artists, and it’s not limited to a canvas or a certain shape,’ said Anna-Lisa Stardust Van der Valk, the curator and producer of ‘Skate This Art.’ ‘We have decks from professional artists, from children, from the elderly, from the disabled.’”

Celebration, Florida surf and video game artist Rob Kaz is profiled by Club Of The Waves: “I approach each painting with a conscious sense of balance between earth and water – most of my paintings have water even if its existence is only implied. I find natural beauty and a soothing logic in water that meets land that I hope relates as emotions found in the viewer, even if not parallel to my own.”