New Year - January Workbench Thread 2014

Here is a lesser I'm finishing up

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Tom, Matt et al~

You guys are killing me....I probably will nt have any birds until the February Bench....too much gunning, family, and boats....

All beautiful stuff this month!

SJS
 
Matt, I really like what you did with your bird. How did you do the back?
Tom, you killed the redheads but the paint on that hen bill is amazing.
Nice work Guys, John
 
Very nice looking bills

Im with Steve to much hunting to do much carving. No heat in the carving area slows production too.
 
Bob,
Looking at the weather I may get less done then I had planned.We should have headed home today and I would have been locked inside with eight blackducks needing paint. Instead we are still in Ohio till after the storm passes. I honestly have nothing to do for the next 24 to 48 hours hours its driving me nuts. I am resigned to drawing patterns and watching it snow and blow!
 
Bob,
Looking at the weather I may get less done then I had planned.We should have headed home today and I would have been locked inside with eight blackducks needing paint. Instead we are still in Ohio till after the storm passes. I honestly have nothing to do for the next 24 to 48 hours hours its driving me nuts. I am resigned to drawing patterns and watching it snow and blow!
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I am a day away from laying paint on a bird or two, Brandon. Will do so thinking of you, haha
 
"the cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."

I like that one Bob, I like it a lot. I will say I had more fun painting that hen than any bird I have painted in a long time. Not that it is perfect but it turned out ALMOST the way I saw it when carving it. I kept putting paint on and learned a lot, it will not be the last hen I do this year.
 
Matt, I really like what you did with your bird. How did you do the back?
Tom, you killed the redheads but the paint on that hen bill is amazing.
Nice work Guys, John
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Simply combed then drybrushed
 
"the cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."

I like that one Bob, I like it a lot.
Sounds like a quote from one of my favorite movies, "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?", doesn't it?
Like Ulysses Everett McGill says: "Delmar, remember that one simple precept and your time with me will not have been ill spent." ;-)
Check out bill dimensions and the contours where upper & lower mandibles meet the frontal lores & "chin" & you'll take another giant step.
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