Photo By/Credit
Scot Storm/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
06/30/2019Media Usage Rights/License
Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved - Used by Permission
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Scot Storm (1962- )
Scot Storm has a long history of sharing his artistic talents to help fund conservation. He began drawing and sketching and at a young age and studied architecture at North Dakota State University. However, his love of hunting and the outdoors and his 1991 win at the Indiana Pheasant Stamp contest, ensured his career as a wildlife and sporting dog artist. He has won another 23 State and Conservation waterfowl, pheasant, and deer stamp competitions. His first of two Federal Duck Stamp wins was the 2004-2005 Federal Duck Stamp which portrays a pair of flying Redheads over a North Dakota prairie pothole. Scot's current 2019-2020 Federal Duck Stamp design portrays an elegant drake Wood Duck shadowed by an old decoy. The nostalgic decoy shows obvious use and illustrates this year's stamp theme of “Celebrating our Waterfowl Hunting Heritage”. Scot has also been recognized three times as Ducks Unlimited's International Artist of the Year and four times as Pheasants Forever's National Artist of the Year. Minnesota Deer Hunter’s Association has also recognized him twice as their Artist of the Year. Scot is an invited artist at art shows across the country. When not painting in his studio, traveling to photograph reference materials, or in the field with his family and friends, Scot coaches wrestling and youth football near his home in Freeport, Minnesota.
DESIGN: Scot Storm; art director— Suzanne Fellows, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; modeler— Joseph Sheeran. PRINTING: process— offset, microprint "FWS"; printer and processor— Ashton Potter USA Ltd., Williamsville, N.Y.; press— Muller A76; inks— cyan, magenta, yellow, black, invisible fluorescent; paper— nonphosphored type III; pressure-sensitive adhesive; issue quantity— 2.365 million (pane of one); 65,000 stamps (pane of 20); formats— pane of 20 (one design); pane of 1 (one design); self- adhesive pane of one, size— 1.762 inches by 1.289 inches (image); 1.89 inches by 1.417 inches (overall); 8.25 inches by 8.25 inches (pane of 20); 6.125 inches by 2.625 inches (pane of one); 25.5 inches by 27 inches (press sheet); plate size -- 36 stamps/revolution (pane of one); 180 stamps/revolution (pane of 20); plate numbers— "P" followed by five single digits (pane of 20), none (pane of one); marginal markings— Selvage text: "Artist: Scot Storm" in four positions, "Department of the Interior 20 × $25.00" in two positions, silhouetted image of duck in two positions; plate number in four locations (front of pane 20); bar codes on four corners of pane, federal duck stamp information on back of each stamp (back of pane of 20); "U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service," "2019-2020 Migratory Bird Hunting & Conservation Stamp," "Peel Here," "Artist: Scot Storm," "Wood Duck & Decoy," "If applicable sign your stamp," "Conserve Habitat for the Future … Buy Duck Stamps!," informational text (front of self-adhesive pane of one); verso text, bar code, ordering information; U.S. Department of the Interior logo, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service logo (back of self-adhesive pane of one); USPS item No.— 336100 (pane of one), 336200 (pane of 20).
Images of the stamp are copyrighted. To use the image on a product that will be produced and sold, you must apply for, and be accepted as, a Licensee. <https://www.fws.gov/service/license-duck-stamps-or-junior-duck-stamp-imagery>
Scot Storm has a long history of sharing his artistic talents to help fund conservation. He began drawing and sketching and at a young age and studied architecture at North Dakota State University. However, his love of hunting and the outdoors and his 1991 win at the Indiana Pheasant Stamp contest, ensured his career as a wildlife and sporting dog artist. He has won another 23 State and Conservation waterfowl, pheasant, and deer stamp competitions. His first of two Federal Duck Stamp wins was the 2004-2005 Federal Duck Stamp which portrays a pair of flying Redheads over a North Dakota prairie pothole. Scot's current 2019-2020 Federal Duck Stamp design portrays an elegant drake Wood Duck shadowed by an old decoy. The nostalgic decoy shows obvious use and illustrates this year's stamp theme of “Celebrating our Waterfowl Hunting Heritage”. Scot has also been recognized three times as Ducks Unlimited's International Artist of the Year and four times as Pheasants Forever's National Artist of the Year. Minnesota Deer Hunter’s Association has also recognized him twice as their Artist of the Year. Scot is an invited artist at art shows across the country. When not painting in his studio, traveling to photograph reference materials, or in the field with his family and friends, Scot coaches wrestling and youth football near his home in Freeport, Minnesota.
DESIGN: Scot Storm; art director— Suzanne Fellows, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; modeler— Joseph Sheeran. PRINTING: process— offset, microprint "FWS"; printer and processor— Ashton Potter USA Ltd., Williamsville, N.Y.; press— Muller A76; inks— cyan, magenta, yellow, black, invisible fluorescent; paper— nonphosphored type III; pressure-sensitive adhesive; issue quantity— 2.365 million (pane of one); 65,000 stamps (pane of 20); formats— pane of 20 (one design); pane of 1 (one design); self- adhesive pane of one, size— 1.762 inches by 1.289 inches (image); 1.89 inches by 1.417 inches (overall); 8.25 inches by 8.25 inches (pane of 20); 6.125 inches by 2.625 inches (pane of one); 25.5 inches by 27 inches (press sheet); plate size -- 36 stamps/revolution (pane of one); 180 stamps/revolution (pane of 20); plate numbers— "P" followed by five single digits (pane of 20), none (pane of one); marginal markings— Selvage text: "Artist: Scot Storm" in four positions, "Department of the Interior 20 × $25.00" in two positions, silhouetted image of duck in two positions; plate number in four locations (front of pane 20); bar codes on four corners of pane, federal duck stamp information on back of each stamp (back of pane of 20); "U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service," "2019-2020 Migratory Bird Hunting & Conservation Stamp," "Peel Here," "Artist: Scot Storm," "Wood Duck & Decoy," "If applicable sign your stamp," "Conserve Habitat for the Future … Buy Duck Stamps!," informational text (front of self-adhesive pane of one); verso text, bar code, ordering information; U.S. Department of the Interior logo, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service logo (back of self-adhesive pane of one); USPS item No.— 336100 (pane of one), 336200 (pane of 20).
Images of the stamp are copyrighted. To use the image on a product that will be produced and sold, you must apply for, and be accepted as, a Licensee. <https://www.fws.gov/service/license-duck-stamps-or-junior-duck-stamp-imagery>
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