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Robb Havassy, 30, first picked up a paintbrush after receiving a beginner's art kit on his twenty-sixth birthday. Four years later, his oils and watercolor — large , energetic often featuring surf scenes — sell out locally, and he's preparing for his New York gallery debut, When he's not in the studio or the ocean, Havassy snowboards and whittles away at his 6 handicap on the golf course. Here, in a rare moment of repose, he's wearing a fitted polo shirt.