In this two-volume set, esteemed decoy and pattern maker Bruce Burk provides time- and artist-tested patterns for 42 duck decoys. Similar in format, these companion volumes offer a wealth of patterns and techniques. Reference photographs taken from multiple angles help carvers familiarize themselves with the duck's actual features before they begin to carve. Outline-carving patterns guide intermediate carvers through the basic carving procedures. Paint-mixing instructions help create each specific duck's unique coloring. Full-color painting patterns show both the flow of the feathers and realistic, lifelike colors. This exhaustive reference includes patterns for the Black Duck, the Golden-Eye Drake, the Mallard Hen, the Lesser Scaup, and the Wood Duck Hen. Originally published in an oversized format, these new editions are a more convenient size and have a lay-flat concealed spiral binding.
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Bruce Burk ranks among the most eminent master carvers in the United States. He is the author of Complete Waterfowl Studies; Game Bird Carving, considered to be the definitive bird carving handbook; and Waterfowl Studies. He lives in Grass Valley, California.
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This review is from: The Decorative Decoy Carver's Ultimate Painting & Pattern Portfolio, Series One (Hardcover)
I found this book to be better than any other carving book I have purchased. The painting guides are accurate and detailed, the patterns are realistic and proportionate, and each species has several different head poses included. I use this book while carving and painting more than all of my others combined.
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I just recently started a carving class and I wanted to start carving a green wing teal. This book has good patterns not only of the green wing teal but several other marsh ducks. And painting advice is very good. I noticed that about five other carvers im my class also have the same book.
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Great Book of Decoys,
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This review is from: The Decorative Decoy Carver's Ultimate Painting & Pattern Portfolio, Series One (Hardcover)
Very good book with patterns and colors. It has helped me with some of the details I needed to get some of the decoys made I am working on for Christmas presents. Great information, love the book.
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Instructions for mixing the different colors required for each duck have been included as an aid to the amateur painter who has difficulty in this phase of realistic bird carving. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
whistling duck drake, lower tail coverts, shoveler drake, teal hen, cadmium yellow medium, rear scapulars, teal drake, outer scapulars, raw umber, raw sienna, base color, burnt umher, burnt umber, upper tail coverts, outer webs, wing primaries, inner webs, upper feathers, greater coverts, bird carving, alizarin crimson, cadmium orange, burnt sienna, equal mixture, upper mandible Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Instructions for mixing the different colors required for each duck have been included as an aid to the amateur painter who has difficulty in this phase of realistic bird carving. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
whistling duck drake, lower tail coverts, shoveler drake, teal hen, cadmium yellow medium, rear scapulars, teal drake, outer scapulars, raw umber, raw sienna, base color, burnt umher, burnt umber, upper tail coverts, outer webs, wing primaries, inner webs, upper feathers, greater coverts, bird carving, alizarin crimson, cadmium orange, burnt sienna, equal mixture, upper mandible Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bruce Burk, Body Back, Tail Upper New!
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- The New Game Bird Carving, 3rd Edition by Bruce Burk in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Waterfowl Studies by Bruce Burk in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Duck Decoys (Classic Carving Projects Made Easy series) by Tom Matus in Back Matter
- Waterfowl Illustrated by Tricia Veasey in Back Matter
- Bottle Stoppers: Classic Carving Projects Made Easy (Classic Carving Projects Made Easy series) by Greg Young in Back Matter
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