I carved these loons....mother and chick about 15 years ago so maybe that's stretching the homemade theme a bit. :-)
Made from a 3 year old piece of my barn loft dried Basswood..a soft no-grain light coloured wood indigenous to this area...much like sugar pine.
Painted by me with a LOT of help from one of my best buddies...a painter and with German glass eyes.
I ran a small in-house carving shop for a while but abandoned it for a job that paid.
It's taken a few blows and nicks over the years but I REALLY love Loons and will try and get a picture of a real one in the fall...when they will be on most of the lakes around here.
Just a quick fact about Loons is that despite the fact they live on the water and are about the same size as a duck they are in fact birds...NOT ducks.
Their call is so lonely and plaintive it could almost make you cry.
Not much altered in this pic except cropping.
Who'da thought that you could turn those logs into Ducky Decoys.
ReplyDeleteThese two are really impressive, such a lot of minute detail, I hope you get lucky with catching the real thing with your lens soon.
ReplyDeleteI think, they are absolutely well done, very, very impressive and appropriate for the theme!
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Beautiful carvings! i love the lonely call of the loon.
ReplyDeleteNot only do you take wonderful photographs, you carve too, where does the talent end?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind comments.
ReplyDeleteMostly it was hard work and some expert painting help to camouflage my 'not so perfect' carving technique.
Great theme fulfillment! Love folk art - hope you still carve for fun!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful artisanship...both in your decoys and your photos.
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