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I had a little time to get some work done on these and they are real close to being done. Sanding, branding, sealing, pad weights and leather line loops will complete them.

That's a lot of coots.

One's going to Virginia in a trade and another will go to my son.

That a bufflehead on the back row, far right?

RickC your work never ceases to make me stop and look in awe. Even being simple coots. They belong in one of those decoy books you always see on someone's coffee table.

The Duck Hammer wrote:That a bufflehead on the back row, far right?

That back one by the box? Hooded merg answer hen that's been giving me fits trying to get painted right. I'm going to attempt it again trying a technique I've been researching called grisaille.

Olly wrote:RickC your work never ceases to make me stop and look in awe. Even being simple coots. They belong in one of those decoy books you always see on someone's coffee table.

Thanks Oily, it's kinda like golf. Addicting, fun and can drive you nuts. There's no one else to blame for bad results, just yourself.

RickC wrote:

The Duck Hammer wrote:That a bufflehead on the back row, far right?

That back one by the box? Hooded merg answer hen that's been giving me fits trying to get painted right. I'm going to attempt it again trying a technique I've been researching called grisaille.

I was thinking merg but the color had me thrown off. The beak should have give it away.

Yeah, that's a cover up and start for the paint that'll go on whenever I get around to it. I had some paint left over from the coots and it was over there asking to painted