Early this spring Jack took a one day workshop on carving at the Ward Museum and came home with, as he called it, a painted "Folk Duck". It is a cute palm-sized thing and, proudly, I promptly put it on a pedestal. A day or two later he came home with a hunk of basswood and declared his next project. A good friend has admired a loon carving we have, gotton quite awhile ago at auction. Jack decided to copy it as a bithday present for Joel.
Having the original was helpful and it has been a good learning experience for Jack. That it came out rather nicely for his first real try is pretty cool. Since he is color-blind, he declared painting it would be my job, which was fine. Although one friend did comment, "Yeah but, so, loon's are just black & white." True, true, I'll call it experience for me because the next bird on the block is a mallard.
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