February "What's on your Workbench?"

I was going to hold off on posting this one after Westlake, unfortunately it's not rule friendly LOL anyhow hollow red cedar and bass painted w/ acrylics.

Mike
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Mike you nailed that ringer love it!
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Thanks Derek, that's a neat looking deke , bet it will float great.

I've never tried a foam bird, but did make some crab bouy decoys years back. You can't kill those things! LOL!

Love to see it when it's got some paint on it.
 
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The shorebirds are awesome Sean and Jode!!

Pat; just packed up the Gregory preening Pin for the Apopka Old Florida Outdoor Festival.

It will be next to a few Furia fronds and the Duckboats.net traveling decoy in the UW-F booth tomorrow and Sunday.

Hitch
 

Finally got finished carving and sanding these guys. Got sealed with two coats of cork sealer earlier this week, and this afternoon I got them primed and textured with 50/50 mix of gesso and texturing paste. I mixed up a batch of 2:1 Burnt umber to Black and I'm pretty happy with it for the color of the bodies. I'm lacking a recipe for the head colors on a black duck. Anyone what to give me a idea of where to start?

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Thanks for looking!
 
The pics here are of John Bourbon's Teal, and then 2 pictures of cork that may look familiar, because Charlie of Charlie and Titan sold it to me about 2 years ago when he was downsizing his gear. I finally am getting around to shaping the bodies. The head on the Tan cork body was a head that Bourbon had sitting on the shelf and is there for effect only. I will have get to work on a couple heads at some point.
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Thanks k folkman! I have Bruce Burk's game bird carving book. I actually picked it up at a Discount store for 7.99. Most of it is more decorative then I'm looking for right now, but the one thing I do like is that it shows color samples and what colors were used in the mix. I spent a lot of time this afternoon looking through images of black ducks to try and match a color. I think I'm still a little too light.

The body color I used was was burnt umber and black, the head was white, black and raw umber. The bill is yellow ochre and a touch of black. We'll see how it looks after I dry brush the crown etc.

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It's a mandarin duck. The samari warriors used to give a pair of them to their son in laws as a warning to look after the daughter as well as they looked after the birds. They would employ a chap/chaps to look after the birds only in an avery. Big problems if they croaked it.
 
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