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A shot of the carving in progress. Shaping and feather groups are all laid out and texturing has begun. |
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| Close up showing details of the head with texturing completed and the burning just begun. |
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A view of the finished head of the Canvasback Drake. |
| "Here's Looking at You!" A close up of the
finished Canny head. Note the fine texture on the feathers between the
eye and the bill. |
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The side pockets and tail of the finished carving. |
| A close up of the rear of the side pocket feathers
showing more detail of the feather work and the vermiculation (fine
lines) painting. Note the silver coloured speculum feathers with white
dots and black edging. |
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The tail feathers have been burnt and the texturing of the rump feathers has just begun. Note
the thickness of the tail feathers. I do not take these feathers down
to the finished thickness until all the texturing is completed. This
prevents breakage with all the handling. |
| This is a similar view of the tail and rump but the painting is completed. |
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