Mallard Pair

Carved these while up in the U.P. of Michigan.  Had a great time working on them

Nearly Almost Complete Statuary

This is my nearly complete piece for the Ward World Carving Competition.  I have some touch up here and there. 

Minnesota Mud Hen - Poulet Noir

The Minnesota Decoy Collectors show coming up in Feb has selected the COOT as the bird of the year. To help show support of the show and to provide motivation for the MN Decoy Carving Club, we selected a Cedar Coot as our annual Winter decoy project. To make this project work for myself, I drew up a pattern from really cool photo of a european coot. Then I carved and painted this little guy up. Fun thing is that it only took about 2 Saturdays to get done. This was certainly fun.