Hen Pintail

[Baysider]

Finished up this bird the other night. Hollowed cedar painted in oils. Ive never so much as held a hen pintail. Hope it looks some what right

[assateague]

That looks good! If I ever make it down that way, I'd be curious to see how you make them.

[JGUN]

Looks good. I try and stay away from hen puddlers, too hard to paint. Oh wait, somehow I volunteered to paint a mandarin.

[JGUN]

How's the Squaw coming?

[Baysider]

Thanks guys. They arent easy to paint thats for sure. Im lacking in my painting so I dont mind the challenge, but I learned a lot on this bird thats for sure. I havent started the squaws yet. I have two buffies to knock out and then on to the squaws.

Assa Im sure I have enough scrap laying around if you ever want to try your hand at one.

[Goldfish]

Wow. Those top back feathers look amazing.

(I'm not saying the rest looks like junk, it looks really good, I'm just blown away by those back feathers)

[Baysider]

No they do, I learned a bit about oil paint on my own as I moved onto the back feathers. I figured I'd leave it and make the next one better.

[Bufflehead]

looks good! i always like decoys that are painted in oils.



you ever read grayson chesser's book? has a lot of details about painting with oils.