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[MLBob Furia]

Bill,

If you are just getting started, pick up a chisel blender or a deer's foot cut blender from a decent supplier like Willy at the Duck Blind. If you're using acrylics, see if you can pick up some sort of extender (Jansens makes a blending medium). If oils, you shouln't have a time issue. Then you can wet blend the dark & light colors where the crown runs. Keep cleaning your brush off as you blend. Same with the eye channel.

Look back at the third picture in my original post. The cylindrical brush with the bar that the roller spins against ( directly above the birds bill) is a spatter brush. Also can be purchased from Willy. That is what is used to "throw " the spatter. But you got to learn to hold your mouth just right... that's the hard part.

 

[Bill T]

Thank you very much for your help.I checked the duck Blind for the brushes and the spatter brush but could not find them what catergory are they under our arent they offerd on the web sight ?

 

[MLBob Furia]

Bill,

Best to call Wily or Diane during the week at their toll-free# That way you can tell him what you're looking to do/ spend. Willy is good people; he won't steer you wrong.

 

[MLBob Furia]

the same bird I had out here?

Steve, I mis-read your original post. No, that bird is from the same pattern as the one I did for Mark. I still have that one in my rig of birds. I believe the head on the one I still have is turned a different direction. The hens are fun, but the head is a tough one to get spattered right. Very effective when it's done. Last pic is of a fancy-schmancy hen (all wooden bird) done quite a few years back that became the proto type for learning to spatter a widgeon hen. Must've looked at VHS video of widgeon for hours, and repainted that head 3-4 times before I figured out how to throw the dots to reproduce the look I wanted.

 

[Bill T]

Thanks again ! i just got some cork from them and a power carver to give carveing a whirl also.I started on her tonight to give it a spin.

 

[Hitch]

Hitch's photo's show how wonderfully they are colored.
Dave

(Thanks, [again] Hitch)..

You're welcome Bob... and I very much look forward to seeing your interpretation of one.

Here's a photo of one you don't have yet:

Hitch

 

[ed gagne]

bob

your work is absolutly amazing maybe one day i can get my birds to look like that.
one question is that displaying hen widgeon one of your cork birds?

eddie