Personal Rig...

I played around with some other effects....

How neat is this?

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looks like a watercolor doesn't it?

Steve
 
What are you guys using to do that...Photoshop?

I know there are some less expensive softwares that have that capability too. It would be fun to play with some of the photos displayed lately.

Sutton's Montana pics, Pat Gregory's and Hitch's avian photos, Gary March's Washington shots, Yukon Mike's...and on and on.

I should know this but I dont... is there a printable photo grade paper with a canvas texture available?


Answered my own question - http://www.mcgpaper.com/artandcrafar.html
 
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and paint those Whistlers...........
Steve
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Steve,

Spent the day in the studio with the hound. Vet tells me she may have done some anterior cruciate damage at the end of Thursday's goose hunt on the River. Freak accident when she slipped & caught her foot in one of the bow handles on the TDB hopping down to the ramp. Resulted in a nasty twist.

Hopefully rest & Rimadyl will do the trick. Unfortunately, rest is not in the mindset of this one. Fetching the morning paper at 100 MPH is more like it. Seems to be doing better and walking normally today.

She was content to snooze for most of the time I painted.

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After a few hours, I took a nap and let her take over for me. Here's the results from today's session. I think this man-cave thing is making me a better painter.

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Like what you did to pat's picture with the painting tool!
 
Bob,

Nice Whistlers.

Sorry to hear about your dog, I hope she has a full recovery and no lasting damage. She looks real content on her rug there.
 
showing off one morning at a very steep ramp I coaxed a yound Buddy to jump into the boat....he was very capable of doing it, regardless of the ht. and was typically willing to do so, I should have known that his reluctance was a signal of something amiss as opposed to recalcitrance......I "demanded that he load up and he did but his angle, the surface of the ramp and the ht of tthe jump all comtrived to cause him to miss the platform, bounce off the stern of the boat and end up in a twisted heap at the water edge....I could see his left rear leg buckle as he went down.........I've done dumber things but I'm not really sure which ones those would be......

I worried over his "limp" all the way to the vet where my stupidity resulted in my paying for yet "another" wing at the Clinic and some real worries that I might have just crippled my best friend in the process........fortunately it all ended happily, thanks to "enforced" rest and the magic of science and a good Vet..........keep her quiet. (and you will let us know how THAT works out for you), and we'll be listening for the word of a full recovery.....

Oh....payment of the NEW WING at the clinic was long ago, and Mike has proved to be very "durable" so funds are available to send to you for those neat shipping boxes that you make.....you may include the decoys inside the boxes so as not to damage the contents through "some shipment might occur during shipping".......

Or...short version.....you did a great job teaching REAL Fulvous Whistlers to sit obediantely on those wooden keels.....

Steve
 
Dave - It will be 26 years this year. Time has flown by... I wouldn't trade it for anything... Time well spent....

Lessons learned...
  1. Don't be scared to try it...
  2. You don't have to be an artist to do it...
  3. If you know ducks and aren't scared to learn, you can make decoys good enough to lure ducks within gunshot...
  4. Carvers make decoys, God makes ducks...
Thanks for asking. Pat

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Pat,
Thank you for sharing and for showing all of us that you can take the decoys out clip them on a long line and throw them into a leaf bag instead of wrapping them up and putting them all in their own pocket of the bag.

Its cold in the UP and time for me to get back at it. Plenty of cedar and pine in the garage and new idea's in my head.
 
Brandon - I'm impressed you noticed. As a matter of fact, the decoys stay clipped to the line all season. They never come off. Jim Schmiedlin's taught me you need to be able to pitch your decoys in 15 minutes and pick them up in the same. You never know when a storm may slide in. In that case, I don't have time to be stuffing the decoys into individually pocketed bags and messing with lines. Your baseline for decoy set and pick up is your worst and roughest day...

Decoys go into the bag and come out the same way every time... Repeatable process is a big key to successful and safe layout hunting and is easy to teach to your crew...

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