On the cover: "Sailboat" by Clifford Schumacker, PA-C, is about the contentment he would feel if he had sailed to this sandy inlet, beached the boat, and explored the rocky coast. Andrew Wyeth and the Santa Fe/Taos-region artists influence Mr Schumacker who appreciates Wyeth's ability to use landscape to create abstract work but prefers to use more vibrant, even unnatural colors of the Southwest artists, also being influenced by Vincent Van Gogh.

Mr Schumacker is a physician assistant formerly at Group Health Olympic Medical Center in Urgent Care. He has no formal art training but has been interested in art for years. He primarily works in watercolor, enhancing the work with wet pastel and gouache.

More of Mr Schumacker's art can be seen in the Soul of the Healer section.

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Submit your artwork to The Permanente Journal to be included in a medical artistic tradition of seven years.

The Permanente Journal is always interested in considering artwork by Kaiser Permanente clinicians and employees. If you would like to submit art for consideration for the cover or interior of The Permanente Journal, please use the following guidelines:

Send us a high-quality color photograph of your art no smaller than 4x5 and no larger than 8x10. For cover art submission, portrait orientation is preferred. Please include a cover letter explaining Kaiser Permanente association, art background, medium and a brief statement about the artwork (description, inspiration, etc). Electronic and e-mail submissions are accepted, 600 dpi resolution is required.
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