DENNIS HAYS
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Here is another one i made this week. i made this one for my Father for Fathers day.
June - What's on your Workbench?
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Steve Sanford
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Good morning, Dennis~
Another spectacular job! (and, I continue to regret the batch of Butternut I gave away 30 years ago.....)
I am putting together 2 sets of note cards for my upcoming Open Studio Tour. http://www.studiotour.org/steve-sanford/ One has 4 species of ducks, the other 4 species of songbirds.
I painted (watercolors) these 2 Butterball this morning:
I painted this Blue Jay when I was a young man (circa 1977) - also watercolors:
All the best,
SJS
Another spectacular job! (and, I continue to regret the batch of Butternut I gave away 30 years ago.....)
I am putting together 2 sets of note cards for my upcoming Open Studio Tour. http://www.studiotour.org/steve-sanford/ One has 4 species of ducks, the other 4 species of songbirds.
I painted (watercolors) these 2 Butterball this morning:
I painted this Blue Jay when I was a young man (circa 1977) - also watercolors:
All the best,
SJS
Vince Pagliaroli
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Dennis - Those are some good fish. I'm sure they will be really appreciated and enjoyed in their new homes.
Dave Speer
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Sean those woodies are killer!
Steve, as much as I like your more photo-realistic bluejay from the past, the buffies you just painted are my preference of the two. Very nice.
Steve, as much as I like your more photo-realistic bluejay from the past, the buffies you just painted are my preference of the two. Very nice.
Dennis: Very nice fish carvings. Black walnut is such a beautiful wood. It's currently being utilized now as a tonewood for the backs and sides of guitars. I've seen some instruments where you can just get lost in the figure and grain of the wood, similar to your carvings. Thanks for sharing.
Ken Zaborski
Ken Zaborski
Steve Sanford
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Dave~
It's a good thing you like my looser style - 62-year-old eyes can no longer do what 24-year-old eyes could!
Here is a drawing I just did for another card series - of Long Island decoys. I used charcoal, ink and watercolor.
I saw this Brant during a visit with Dick DeMott last weekend. Dick is the great-grandson of the carver. The actual card includes a dark red border - which really complements the image.
All the best,
SJS
It's a good thing you like my looser style - 62-year-old eyes can no longer do what 24-year-old eyes could!
Here is a drawing I just did for another card series - of Long Island decoys. I used charcoal, ink and watercolor.
I saw this Brant during a visit with Dick DeMott last weekend. Dick is the great-grandson of the carver. The actual card includes a dark red border - which really complements the image.
All the best,
SJS
Steve Sutton
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Oh man I love that Brant card....how do I get me some.....
Lets do a poster on Brant decoy styles.....you know you doing all the work and me pimping the posters.......the t-shirt artwork started as a poster that I bought at Tuckerton....there should be enough Brant lovers to jump all over a poster that had twenty or so different Brant decoys on it....I've got some great examples East and West Coast.....Hagerbaumer, Chesser, Bowden, Pinches......
And if not then..."how do I get me some of the note card you just posted...
Steve
Lets do a poster on Brant decoy styles.....you know you doing all the work and me pimping the posters.......the t-shirt artwork started as a poster that I bought at Tuckerton....there should be enough Brant lovers to jump all over a poster that had twenty or so different Brant decoys on it....I've got some great examples East and West Coast.....Hagerbaumer, Chesser, Bowden, Pinches......
And if not then..."how do I get me some of the note card you just posted...
Steve
Steve Sanford
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Good morning, Steve~
That DeMott Brant will be part of a set - along with an Al McCormick Black Duck, a Shang Wheeler Whistler and a Wildfowler Broadbill - of 5 x 7 notecards I am putting together. Not sure when these will go into "production" but I may have some printed for my mid-July studio show.
The poster project sounds interesting. I would need Sutton-quality photos of any others we wanted to include. It's something we could work on over a few months - in time for Christmas?
All the best,
SJS
That DeMott Brant will be part of a set - along with an Al McCormick Black Duck, a Shang Wheeler Whistler and a Wildfowler Broadbill - of 5 x 7 notecards I am putting together. Not sure when these will go into "production" but I may have some printed for my mid-July studio show.
The poster project sounds interesting. I would need Sutton-quality photos of any others we wanted to include. It's something we could work on over a few months - in time for Christmas?
All the best,
SJS
Kris Schaumburg
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in for a brant poster. how about a black duck poster as well.
Colin Fitzpatrick
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Sounds like a great idea, I could get a lot of pictures of good jersey brant for it
Steve Sanford
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Colin & Steve Sutton (and anyone else with some nice old Brant stool and a good camera)~
What I would need are dead-on profile views with light from above. A separate shot that shows the bottom/keel, ballast etc is often useful/necessary.
I also need: the Carver, carver's hometown and date (approx is OK)
Just send me a PM and we can start the ball rolling.
And, if you have some nice Black Duck duck, might as well take a few pics of them, too - to keep Kris happy!
I cannot begin this project until after my July studio show - but I already have the photos I need to draw the Ackerly Brant I just repaired. And, next time I'm on LI, I will take photos of some more birds.
Finally, I will probably start a separate post on this topic.
All the best,
SJS
What I would need are dead-on profile views with light from above. A separate shot that shows the bottom/keel, ballast etc is often useful/necessary.
I also need: the Carver, carver's hometown and date (approx is OK)
Just send me a PM and we can start the ball rolling.
And, if you have some nice Black Duck duck, might as well take a few pics of them, too - to keep Kris happy!
I cannot begin this project until after my July studio show - but I already have the photos I need to draw the Ackerly Brant I just repaired. And, next time I'm on LI, I will take photos of some more birds.
Finally, I will probably start a separate post on this topic.
All the best,
SJS
Steve Sanford
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Here is one of my completed Solitary Sandpipers. Basswood finished in oils with a brass "leg".
Back to the bench....lots more "in process".....
SJS
Back to the bench....lots more "in process".....
SJS
Steve Sutton
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Steve ... Love the Solitary....like that's a surprise....
I think the Brant poster would be a great item....not sure if it should be contemporary or "older"......I like the idea of both......but the question becomes "how many" on the poster and how do you separate the East from the West Coast......I've got some ideas on that and we should definately talk about it.....
A separate thread makes sense for sure when you have the time to work on it.....once I get the Florida move over I'll get in touch and we can talk about it.....
Steve
I think the Brant poster would be a great item....not sure if it should be contemporary or "older"......I like the idea of both......but the question becomes "how many" on the poster and how do you separate the East from the West Coast......I've got some ideas on that and we should definately talk about it.....
A separate thread makes sense for sure when you have the time to work on it.....once I get the Florida move over I'll get in touch and we can talk about it.....
Steve
Steve Steffy
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I'll be waiting to see this Brant poster collaboration, that will be neat and no doubt well done.
Steve
Steve
Robert treble
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Heres mine I have been dappling for a few years down here in Australia it is a Chestnut teal drake made from palm frond the head is also from palm frond
View attachment chestnut teal palm frond.jpg
View attachment chestnut teal palm frond.jpg
Steve Sanford
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Earlier I posted some Brant stool I repaired for a friend on Long Island. This was the best of the lot - a Root-head Brant by Lem Ackerly.
Here is the drawing I did Thursday - for a series of notecards and probably for the Brant Poster Steve Sutton and I will be cooking up later this year. I used my 2015-16 Artistic License to "remove" the whitish bars that were likely later touch-ups to the original paint.
All the best,
SJS
Here is the drawing I did Thursday - for a series of notecards and probably for the Brant Poster Steve Sutton and I will be cooking up later this year. I used my 2015-16 Artistic License to "remove" the whitish bars that were likely later touch-ups to the original paint.
All the best,
SJS
Pat Gregory
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Steve - Excellent work on both accounts. Thank you for sharing your goodness brother! Pat
Steve Sutton
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What a GREAT bird and your rendition does it perfect justice.....Love it.....if there was a "nit" to pick itwould be that I love that crack in the neck of the bird and I'd like to see it show more strongly in the drawing......
Seen CHAMP yet? When you do we'll expect a drawing.......
Steve
Seen CHAMP yet? When you do we'll expect a drawing.......
Steve