Aye Mates,
I am a true fan o' the history o' waterfowl hunting and the working / gunning decoys utilized during the golden era o' the fowler. One can certainly look at the remaining examples o' the great carvers o' times long gone and view their wooden birds as floating sculpture. I have a number o' favorites, most o' them from New England where I have spent much o' me life fowling. I am posting two renderings o' vintage working decoys I have done in tribute to a pair o' me favorite makers - Gus Wilson o' Maine (common eider drake) and Shang Wheeler o' Connecticut (Canada goose). Both renderings are done on acid free archival quality paper using mixed media. Image size for both renderings is approximately 9" X 12".
I particularly love Wilson's whimsical use o' paint in making his birds a bit more ornate than most o' the standard block style painting utilized by prolific makers from the same time period. As for Shang Wheeler, I love the graceful form his decoys assumed and I have hunted many o' the same waters he did many decades previous to meself.😀
Cheers,
Irishwhistler☘️