December Workbench Thread *Happy Holidays*

Tom Modin

Tom Modin

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even with remodel work finishing up, duck and deer season I was able to work on a couple birds.

Mallard in oils, hollow bass body with cedar head. Have only base coat on bill plus some cleanup to do

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First, a couple just finished, cork drake mallard, in oils
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Pine Common Eider, also in oil
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and currently on the bench, my first full body attempt, either a mallard or a black
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and here a hen mallard I am working on painting. Since I am continually frustrated by hens, I used Grayson Chessers instructions from his book. I figured doing it someone elses way would help me learn, and get a finished product I am happy with. Getting there...still not happy haha...
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good work gentlemen

here are the birds after they were finished, still wet and shiny sitting out in the sunlight.

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they have a few issues with them nothing horrible but will improve on the next set. mallards numbered 7,8 and 9
 
I'm diggin the playhouse in the background. It would make a good decoy shop.
anyway a Mandarin duck I,m in the process of painting and a pair of miniature wood ducks.


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Sean. I love everything about those wood ducks...the pose, the sweeping lines, the paint. Any chance at another photo from a different angle?
 
Nothing new to post up right now - as RD Wilson likes to say: "Time for all that art to hit the water." But I am always working on stuff.

We're finally starting to see some weather, better water conditions and a few birds. This I did a few all-frond hunts. I think one of my favorite groups of decoys to set out consists of palm frond carvings. It's always neat to see birds decoy over these throwbacks from a time when decoy makers made do with what materials they could find locally.

I got some hateful looks from Sadie during an afternoon hunt on Thursday when we had a big group of mallards hanging over the fronds.... all I managed was poking a few holes in the sky without touching a feather. That inspired me to stay out 'til sunset; but, alas, opportunity flew but once that day.

Back at it the following afternoon with better results. Here are pictures I took of the frond decoys, frond pickleweeds, & Sadie :

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