Northern Pintail Hen: Completed Piece

Before Paint Color

 With Mate

Northern Pintail Hen

Starting out...

Getting the basic shape

The Carving Process Completed

Starting the painting process

 

Northern Shoveler Drake - new carving

Carving in process

Carving complete. Ready to paint.

Hawk ~ Painting In Process

Revisiting the hawk - newly carved and ready to paint

Miniature Bufflehead Duck - Complete

Hard to tell from these photos but this carving is palm size -- perhaps 5" long overall....

New Carving: A Baby Bufflehead (Drake)

Revisiting the Ring-Necked Duck

A gift for a devoted friend....

Painting underway for the newcomer but soon they will go their separate ways.

Blueprint for a Cinnamon Teal

Having sold the original carving a number of years ago, Bart has begun carving this duck to add back into his collection:

Sandpiper Carving before painting

Steller's Eider Drake: The Finished Piece

Painting Underway...

November 27th

November 25th

Steller's Eider Drake: Ready to Paint

Progess report

Steller's Eider (Drake)

This relatively small sea duck is the smallest in the Eider family at just 18" long. The male has a number of distinguishing characteristics: a thick black eye ring; greenish-black tufts of feathers on the forehead and back of head; black chin, throat, neck and rump; dark bluish-purplish feathered wings with white edging which appear like stripes across the back when folded. Breeds in eastern Siberia & Alaska. (Wikipedia)

Photo by Tony Davison

Finished Project: White-winged Scoter

White-winged Scoter Update: Paint Job In Progress

The painting begins

White-winged Scoter: Ready to Paint

Next Up: A White-winged Scoter (Drake)

This stocky diving duck, characterized by its bulky shape and large bill has a white eye! Most ducks have brown or black eyes, though there are species with red and golden eyes. The White-wing Scoter is distinctive for its comma-shaped white eye patches and orange/red bill with black knob base. Large white patches on its speculum, stand in contrast to the black wing, making  the White-winged Scoter easy to identify in flight.

Here's what it looks like in the wild:

Here's the work in progress to date: