Artists that carve ?

- It has everything to do with drive and passion

- I don't like to do things half a$$ed.
- My success then and today was taking a class with Keith Mueller. He offered advice the first few days, but was nice enough to realize I was going to pass or fail on my own. He also instilled a passion for the Art in making decoys. However, this has allow me to start making my own patterns and draft ideas.
-I am a hunter and I am an artist. I am much better at the first. I would like to be much better at the second.
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I have edited out a lot of what Steve said to illustrate a very important point that comes through in what he's offered. It's something I think is at the core of any discussion about teaching & learning with regard to art:

Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.
 
I have enjoyed reading the other post from everyone. I hunt ducks and I carve my own decoys. I don't consider myself an artist. Learning technical skills so I can achieve new looks to my decoys is something I am aspiring to do and most of those skills are being learned from those I consider artists.

Perhaps I will become an artist on the journey to paint better decoys but the goal for me is better working decoys used to lure live birds into gun range.

More recently I have decided to switch to oils and to carve a rig or 5 or 6 at a time instead of a decoy at a time.
 
I agree, interesting. Pat's post really hit the nail on the head for me though, having an artistic talent, but also the family tradition of making decoys and how define the difference.
 
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