Antique Style Deck Decoys: Comtemporary Techniques to Carve and Paint in the Folk Art Tradition by Tom Matus     (More Details)
Create American Folk Art by Learning to Carve and Paint the Contemporary Antique Decoy In Antique-Style Duck Decoys, Tom Matus, an experienced wildfowl hunter and a champion decoy carver, introduces you to the special world of the Contemporary Antique-Styled Decoy. Whether you're a novice exploring the craft of decoy carving, a veteran craftsman seeking a change of pace, or a painter looking for a fresh outlet to demonstrate your talents, the author's expert guidance will have you creating your very own stylized contemporary decoy to display and admire.

Baby Bird and Chick Carving     (More Details)
Baby birds are some of the cutest creatures on this earth!" So begins Rosalyn Daisey's latest adventure into fine carving. In this new book she leads the carver through the creating of the chicks of five birds: the Carolina Chickadee, the Eastern Bluebird, the Bobwhite Quail, the Killdeer, and the Wood Duckling. Each step in the process is illustrated with a clear color photograph and a concise explanation from the author about what the step involves and how to do it correctly. In addition there are reference drawings, color palettes, and photographs of study skins. As always Rosalyn share the anecdotes and insights of a wildlife lover, and it is easy to see why her work seems to reflect a reverence for her subjects. This is Rosalyn's fifth carving book. She is nationally respected as one of the country's leading wildlife artists. Her work has won numerous awards, and the interest in her seminars speaks well of her ability to teach the art to others. This is the same skill she brings to this book. Enjoy.

Bills and Feet An Artisans Handbook by William Veasey     (More Details)
This book awaited artist's manual is the first definitive sourcebook of its kind. In it, William Veasey teaches decorative decoy artists to accurately paint the details of waterfowl and gamebird bills and feet, as well as those of birds of prey. Bills and Feet is an authoritative work which will allow the craftsman to achieve a more lifelike effect with his carvings. Illustrated in full color, it is a must for the serious decoy artist.

Bird Carving Basics: Feet     (More Details)
This second volume in the 'Bird Carving Basics' series offers a wide variety of techniques for creating all kinds of feet for all kinds of birds. Over 150 step-by-step photos with clear, detailed captions let you work right beside innovative carvers like Dan Brown, Jo Craemer, and Larry Tawes, Jr. You will not only learn their methods, but through their suggestions and examples you will be able to develop your own style for making feet.

Bird Carving Basics: How To Compete     (More Details)
Bird Carving Basics: How To Compete by Badger. Softcover.

Bird Carving Basics: Tools     (More Details)
Bird Carving Basics: Tools by Badger. Softcover.

Birds From Wood Making Decoys and Other Birds by Hugh O'Neill     (More Details)
Birds from Wood Making Decoys and Other Birds by O'Neill introduces the various processes of carving and painting ducks, raptors, owls and songbirds. Written by Hugh O'Neill.

Carving and Painting A Pintail Drake with Jimmie Vizier     (More Details)
Cajun master carver Jimmie Vizier takes the gunning-style of carving to a new level. Includes step-by-step instructions with full-color photos and detailed captions as well as a life-sized pattern.

Carving Decorative Duck Decoys: With Full-Size Templates by Harry V. Shourds and Anthony Hillman     (More Details)
16 templates and fully illustrated instructions will aid even beginners to carve a Gadwall, Cinnamon Teal, Sheldrake, Steller's Eider, and a dozen other exotic species. For hunters, collectors. All decoys in color on covers.

Carving Decorative Eagles by Anthony Hillman     (More Details)
Complete instructions for projects based on original models that once graced homes, ships, public buildings. Create appealing wall placques, self-standing models, bookends. All projects shown in full color on cover.

Carving Popular Birds: Patterns and Instructions for 12 Life-Size Models by Anthony Hillman     (More Details)
Front, top, side views, characteristic markings of fox sparrow, purple finch, barn swallow, downy woodpecker, northern mockingbird, western tanager, horned lark, five other familiar species. Advice on selecting tools, woods; detailed carving directions, more. Individual portraits in lifelike settings.

Carving Tropical Birds by Anthony Hillman     (More Details)
Complete instructions, patterns for creating the Gouldian finch, Fischer's love bird, Andean cock-of-the-rock, keel-billed toucan and eight other exotic avian creatures. From noted wildlife woodcarver: complete step-by-step instructions, patterns and clearly detailed diagrams for creating 12 lovely creatures, including the Gouldian finch, Fischer's love bird, Andean cock-of-the-rock, blue-and-yellow macaw, keel-billed toucan, budgerigar parakeet and six others.

Geese, A Pictorial Study by Tricia Veasey     (More Details)
This useful reference presents over a hundred full color photographs of the common Canada goose, the Cackling goose, Richardson's goose and the Brandt in natural habitats and a wide variety of classic and unusual positions. Tricia Veasey has artistically captured on film the structural details, feather patterns, colors and body forms of geese as they appear in both land and water locations. Geese is an exquisite compilation which should become a high-standard source book for artists, carvers, taxidermists and naturalists alike.

Painting Songbird Carvings by Anthony Hillman     (More Details)
Step-by-step directions, accurately detailed illustrations (profile and top view) for painting western tanager, American goldfinch, red-winged blackbird, 13 more. All depicted in life-size top and side views. Tips on selecting brushes and paints and applying colors.

Songbird Carving by Rosalyn Daisey     (More Details)
Songbird Carving Rosalyn Daisey is a unique book that can be appreciated on two levels: first, as a step-by-step set of instructions, with exquisite photographs and hand-drawn illustrations covering techniques of carving, texturing, painting and mounting of five songbird projects; second, as a work of art unto itself. The five songbird projects featured are the Black-capped Chickadee, Tufted titmouse, American Goldfinch, House Wren, and Catbird. To complement the instructions there are chapters on tools and supplies, the basics of carving song birds, and the birds habitats. The carefully organized text and clear step-by-step illustrations provided an unsurpassed guide to this form of carving.