Step-by-step instructions and detailed pattern for creating a lifesize… More

My first attempt at decoy carving was a ruddy duck. That was in 1987, and… More

I've always been interested in decoys that look old. Learning the… More

A decoy is more than the sum of its parts, of course, but it's still… More

When painting a smoothie, the nice thing about making mistakes is that you… More

Its always interesting to learn how various carvers came to the art form… More

For some time, I had considered carving a rig of red-breasted mergansers… More

Several years ago, I visited the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art in Salisbury,… More

The pintail duck is a wonderfully aesthetic duck but it can represent a… More

Most of us think of abstract art as involving images which have no… More

Don't throw away the cutoffs you have left when you make larger ducks.… More

The blue-winged drake is fun to paint. It gives you many opportunities to… More

Glenn McMurdo's wife, Katherine McMurdo, shows off some of Glenn's… More

One of the more prominent and often emulated historical styles is the one… More

The blue-winged drake is a beautiful bird. The highlight areas for me are… More