November Workbench...

[Pat Gregory]

Let's get this puppy going!

Working on a scaup project that will be migrating to New Jersey. I am very pleased with the rig. Bodies are Michigan white cedar and heads Wisconsin white pine. Post up your November work!!! And, Godspeed on the marsh, in the field and on the broadwater... Pat

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Also, I used a wet on wet technique of blending some green into the heads of the drakes. I coated the black onto the entire head and neck area. While wet, I took green paint from my pallet and stippled it into the black paint until I got the effect I wanted. The strength of this technique is the green paint dries uniformly with the black and, it hardens as essentially, one paint. Try it if you like. It's simple to do. Compliments of the great Mike Lashbrook...
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[Pat Gregory]

The entire rig near end of completion...

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[Carl]

Very nice! I just love bluebill decoys. I need to carve some more foam and break out the burlap.

 

[DENNIS HAYS]

work bench is a mess. duck season is all most here. i have got to get busy.

 

[bob welsh]

Nice bills Pat. Hard to think of divers when the temps are in the 70's. Im using the time away from the river to finish up this pair.

 

[Shawn Hollis]

I love the bodoc call! I hope you have a good season.

 

[Pat Gregory]

Thanks Bob! I am always in the mood for divers. You just need to hunt the right places...

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Rainbow flag... That was tough to swallow coming from a Fedora wearing, cigar smoking diver snob like you...

 

[Farrukh Ashraf]

Rig looks great Pat!

 

[bob welsh]

OK I take it back...if you tell me where the birds are on the river.

 

[Pat Gregory]

Probably take more than a half-hearted apology. A couple of expensive maduros might do it...

 

[bob welsh]

Ok how about a couple of Fuente 8-5-8's and you can let your freak flag fly?

 

[Kris Schaumburg]

bob that mallard drake is a stunner, very marty hanson like (huge compliment in my eyes)

 

[MLBob Furia]

Just completed addition to my collection of frond pickleweeds:

Great Blue Heron confidence pickleweed-

In the shop:

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... and in the marsh:

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MLBob

"Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic." (Annie Dillard)

....Here's to Joe Wooster, who made me realize that the useful could and should be beautiful; and who firmly believed that decoy carvers were the last free men in America.

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[Pat Gregory]

Bob - That is one bodacious pickleweed! Pat

 

[jode hillman]

Nice Rig Pat.......!

Bob, now that's a serious Pickleweed!


This is literally on the bench. Lots of wet paint here........

 

[MLBob Furia]

Beautiful goose, Jode. Got that "Ward Foundation" look

 

[bob welsh]

Kris, Thanks for the compliment. I know Marty and on my best day couldnt carve or paint like he can... but I'll take it. Actually I like the back painting on the hen as the best part of the pair. They need a wash coat and some final touches .

 

[bob welsh]

Sanford gunning box
New canvas sewn around the bonnet . Crummy pic

 

[ScottCK]

Carved a few new birds and fixed up some older ones. Trying to learn to paint with oils.....

 

[Darin Clark]

A canvasback I just finished up

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