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Keep posting photos Kevin, we can all learn something from each other. I try to get better everyday. Something that may surprise some is that I still have a reference photo in front of me, both carving and painting. by now you'd think I could do it all by memory, but even painting a mallard...

I finished 4 more blacks this afternoon. I still have a dozen wigeons and a pair of redheads to finish, but not today.

Lots of decoys going in the shop these days. I'm finally getting a few of them finished up. I had 52 decoys in the shop the first of the week in various stages of incompleteness. I guess that number will drop 18 by the end of the day. These are carved and sculpted, I think of carving as...

I'm going to sneak these Mottled ducks in here. I just finished them this morning. Tough paint job, painting over flocking is a real challenge on stuff like this. I'm really flying blind on these guys, I just know nothing about mottled ducks. I'm liking the relaxed pose more and more, it's...

Thanks for the help. I did end up on the orange end of things. From what I was seeing if you had a hundred pictures of mottled hens you'd have a hundred different bill layouts. This is what I came up with, I think I had green, yellow, black, orange and a carmel mix color on the bill. I'm...

it's a great site. I had it on my favorites bar under the heading Birds. When our computer turned red during and update it was adios bird references and 13,000 pictures of black bears which distressed me more than the bird site at the time. Maybe I had too many photos on my computer, ya think.

It was like finding an old friend. It's back on my favorites bar where it belongs, I've no doubt spent 100's of hours looking through references on this page and as soon as I saw the picture from the link I knew I was home. It's a great resource for birds and many other things. I'll put the...

oh man Jason, you saved my life. I used to have the e j Peiker site on my favorites bar and had a computer meltdown and lost nearly everything. I think I'll roll a little more on the orange side and noticed a few things I need to change on the feathering. Thank you. you're the man.

I've never had one in hand, can't find any good picture reference hens online that I trust and they all vary widely. Some photos labelled as hen mottled show a greenish bill like a hen black, some are orange like a hen mallard. I see so many references on line that are obviously mislabeled...

That's gorgeous Ron. I love it. Kevin, that makes me think when my son Caleb thought we needed to make cedar lawn furniture and wood boxes for about 5 years. It about killed me, NO MORE WOOD. I'm terribly allergic to about any wood dust.