You may have noticed a number of new pieces of wildlife art at Duck Bay.  The artist is Ken who, several years ago tried his hand at illustrating using a scratch-board technique.  A scratch-board artist doesn't begin with pencils, inks and paint, rather they start with a solid black board and use sharp-tipped tools to scratch away and reveal the white sub-surface.  The artist sometimes adds colors to the final images with chalks and water colors.  Ken has a passion for illustrating animals in natural settings, and has done hundreds of pieces.  He welcomes requests for commissioned pieces from pet owners and wildlife enthusiasts!

With a background in graphic design, Kevin started a creative marketing firm, Duffy Design Works in 1996.  Since acquiring two other firms, Duffy Design Works has today evolved into Straight North (www.straightnorth.com), a top Chicago internet marketing agency.  Straight North builds lead-generation and ecommerce websites and provides ongoing SEO, PPC and social media management strategy and marketing services.

Kevin is also a founding partner in Officite (www.officite.com) which he helped launch nearly six years ago.  Officite builds high-perfoming websites and marketing programs for physicians.  As the industry leader and largest provider in that space, this fast-growing firm now manages nearly 6,000 medical sites throughout the world.

At 13 years old, Kenny is already quite a fisherman; he caught muskie fever this year helping his cousin land, photo and safely release monsters measuring 47 and 45 inches.  His father says that Kenny's entertaining antics, humor and enthusiasm made this year's trip especially memorable.  Besides fishing, Kenny enjoys snowboarding, playing guitar and singing lead in his band.  Kenny is looking forward to his July 2011 fishing trip and continues striving towards his life's goal of living in the bait shack at Duck Bay Lodge and working as a guide.