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A huge, oversize, fully illustrated look at an American folk-art treasure, complete with hundreds of lavish full-color photographs.
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Wish we could find more copies.......1999-12-21
This book spends more time on loan to antique dealers and decoy collectors then it does in my library. It is an excellent reference work for collector and waterfowler alike. Everyone who sees it and collects, deals or dreams wants a copy. But we simply can't find them. Superb pictures and detailed text. We rate it excellent all around.
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In this two-volume set, esteemed decoy and pattern maker Bruce Burk provides time- and artist-tested patterns for 42 duck decoys. Similar in format, these companion volumes offer a wealth of patterns and techniques. Reference photographs taken from multiple angles help carvers familiarize themselves with the duck's actual features before they begin to carve. Outline-carving patterns guide intermediate carvers through the basic carving procedures. Paint-mixing instructions help create each specific duck's unique coloring. Full-color painting patterns show both the flow of the feathers and realistic, lifelike colors. This exhaustive reference includes patterns for the Black Duck, the Golden-Eye Drake, the Mallard Hen, the Lesser Scaup, and the Wood Duck Hen. Originally published in an oversized format, these new editions are a more convenient size and have a lay-flat concealed spiral binding.
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Extremely useful book.......2005-08-26
I found this book to be better than any other carving book I have purchased. The painting guides are accurate and detailed, the patterns are realistic and proportionate, and each species has several different head poses included. I use this book while carving and painting more than all of my others combined.
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Being on the migrational flyway for ducks and geese, the upper Chesapeake Bay has long been a center for waterfowl hunting. Where there is hunting, there are, of course, decoys. The area around Havre de Grace, Maryland has produced some of the most prolific decoy makers in America. Usually born of the necessity of the hunt, their decoys have become highly collectable. In Upper Chesapeake Bay Decoys and Their Makers, David and Joan Hagan share their talent for photography with the reader. They illustrate the art of the decoy makers in this area with beautiful images of the birds they have formed. Usually their decoys are accompanied by the portraits of the artists and recollections and reflections on their art and experiences. Over eighty decoy makers are represented in Upper Chesapeake Bay Decoys and Their Makers. Many of them are still alive and active in their work. The decoys illustrated range from early decoys, faded and worn smooth with use, to recent decoys which go directly from the artist to the collector without ever touching the water. All of them show the skill of the artist and evoke the appreciation that has made the decoy a central theme in American folk art.
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UPPER CHESAPEAKE BAY DECOYS AND THERE MAKERS.......2007-06-10
great history of the old timers and younger decoy carvers and hunters, what a history to read, thats how it all started and is still alive to day, for time takes no toll on this art. the carver may pass over the bar but the decoys shall remain into the future.
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- Collector's classic guide
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New Jersey Decoys is the first book offered to collectors that exclusively covers the birds made in this state. It is a photographic history that pictures more than 700 different New Jersey ducks, geese, and shorebirds. There are thirty-nine large color plates included. The author has drawn extensively from the major New Jersey collections and a number of old gunning photographs are also included. In addition, there are biographical summaries of many New Jersey makers. The book covers the New Jersey coast on the east from Point Pleasant to Cape May and includes the makers and decoys from the Delaware River as the western boundary.
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Collector's classic guide.......2007-06-20
If you are a new or an old hand to duck decoy collecting, this is an invaluable reference. The photographs are excellent and show both form and detail. This book is a classic guide, that many vintage decoy collectors and sellers use for identifying carvers of old decoys. Highly recommended by a decoy collector (me).
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In this two-volume set, esteemed decoy and pattern maker Bruce Burk provides time- and artist-tested patterns for 42 duck decoys. Similar in format, these companion volumes offer a wealth of patterns and techniques. Reference photographs taken from multiple angles help carvers familiarize themselves with the duck's actual features before they begin to carve. Outline-carving patterns guide intermediate carvers through the basic carving procedures. Paint-mixing instructions help create each specific duck's unique coloring. Full-color painting patterns show both the flow of the feathers and realistic, lifelike colors. This exhaustive reference includes patterns for the Black Duck, the Golden-Eye Drake, the Mallard Hen, the Lesser Scaup, and the Wood Duck Hen. Originally published in an oversized format, these new editions are a more convenient size and have a lay-flat binding.
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A good decoy needs to be an expert in canine communication, and needs to know how to use this language to stimulate aggression in the dog. This book explains, step by step, how to understand the canine paralanguage and how to use your own body to communicate with the dog. It then explains the different types of natural dog aggression and how to use its own language to trigger the useful types without being abusive to the dog. Decoys and Aggression also describes drills designed to develop skill in the decoy. Some are designed to be conducted without dogs until the human demonstrates enough body control to work with a live animal without injuring the dog or himself. This book is the first to combine inter-species communication skills with the specific types of aggression known to be useful to police dog trainers. As such, it is essential reading for all decoys, instructors and students alike, as well as for K9 personnel, handlers, and trainers.
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Should be in every dog trainers library.......2000-05-11
This book is the best I've seen for teaching decoys to read dogs. The information is great for both novice and seasoned trainer. Prior to training any decoy it is required reading. It's great to see someone who has spent time training dogs not just studying theories. It is well written, clear cut and straight to the point, it's filled from start to finish with useful information.
A must have for all decoys and K-9 handlers!!!.......1999-04-24
Great information for novices and experts alike. Excellent section on reading canine body language and influencing the dog's perception of you by using your body language. I have read and re-read this book many times and have found valuable information every time. This book is essential for all novice decoys, trainers and for anyone who handles dogs that can be aggressive. Get this book, it may save you from being bitten or seriously injured.
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Long a standard and favorite for crafters, carving decoys is made simple in this easy-to-follow design book, which includes a history of decoys, an introduction to basic carving techniques, and complete instructions for carving a male mallard decoy. Strategies for carving the head attachment, setting eyes, shaping the body and feathers, sealing, priming, and painting are also provided.
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Bought the book and carved one.......2006-07-23
THe book is excellent. It gives a very nice detailed accounting of how to carve a mallard duck detail, soup to nuts. The illustrations are beautiful, the text generally excellent. Covers wood selection, tools, details of carving (down to the shape of the nostrils on the bill and the overlap of the feathers), painting (which takes the bird from a fine shape to the gorgeous bird on the cover).
I am a budding sculptor, and I have a lot to learn. The most important lessons appear to be:
1. Get A LOT of reference material. It would be ideal if you have live ducks wandering around nearby so you can get ready 3D inspiration.
2. Stop FREQUENTLY just to LOOK at the work. It's easy to get too caught up in the process and lose sight of the shape of the whole. I messed up the wings on my first duck and had to start over.
The book has some references for glass eyes, carving tools, etc, but it was a bit sparse. A larger list might be nice.
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- A Fantasy series worth reading
- Maybe I expect too much out of my genre fiction
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The Decoy Princess
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Princess Contessa's dreams of living happily ever after marrying a prince are shattered when her "parents" reveal that she's actually a street urchin they raised as their daughter to thwart assassins from their real target.
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A Fantasy series worth reading.......2007-09-17
With a world much different than our own, this a series of novels that can fire up the imagination. The decoy princess is a character that people can really understand. Young, intelligent, and resourceful, the princess has the power to change the history of her nation, but one wonders if she can do the same for herself.
Maybe I expect too much out of my genre fiction.......2007-07-27
It's rare that I will put a book down without finishing it, and I hacked my way through three-quarters of the novel before I dropped this one. At that point I was only reading it to see if she got together with The Guy, but it was becoming apparent that the author had lost interest in that storyline so I gave up. The prose is clunky and overblown, with every single hand gesture being described in vivid detail as if we are watching a movie instead of reading a book. Her curls, for example, are described again, and again, and again. Every man has the habit of rubbing his beard, because we need to be reminded over and over again that they are hairy. Because of all this description, the plot pacing is extremely slow. The decoy spends most of it out on the road, camping. How facinating.
I started reading (and gave my review an extra star) because of what I thought was an interesting premise: instead of someone discovering that they are The Chosen One, she starts out thinking she is The Chosen One and finds out she's not. The Real Chosen One was kept safely hidden out in the country, while our heroine was raised in public to take assassin's poison for the princess. Think of all the interesting places that could go! Think of all the non-traditional paths that could take! She could be an anti-heroine! She could run away! She could take the throne herself!
The author takes none of them. Sure, the decoy toys with some of these ideas, but not seriously enough that we are fooled into thinking she will do any of the above. Instead, the former princess resolves to avenge her "parents" deaths, spends most of her time seeking out the real princess (so she can slap her, apparently, which is what she does when she finds her), meets a handsome rouge, and finds out that she IS A Chosen One - one with more power than a mere princess. Sound familiar? Yeah. All in all, a big disappointment, especially when she decides to use her new-found powers to dispose of the evil invader and put the rightful heir on the throne. Isn't that far more interesting than seeing something fresh and different?
Great Fantasy Adventure.......2007-01-09
I normally do not read Fantasy, but I was looking for a break from Romance. This was wonderful - it was a fast paced, entertaining read. I totally enjoyed it and am looking forward to reading the sequel.
Fluffy and fun, but insubstantial.......2006-09-03
I picked up "The Decoy Princess" at a used bookstore after its cover caught my eye and its premise charmed me. I finished the book within a day and have sat around for a month trying to figure out if I liked it.
"The Decoy Princess" does not have a particularly inventive or ingenious plot, but it is a classic and have endured worse treatment. As many have noted, "The Decoy Princess" has a little bit of everything, and serves as a good introduction to fantasy. What perplexes me is that I have constantly found this book in the general Science Fiction/Fantasy category, and seems much more suited to a Young Adult novel.
"The Decoy Princess" is not particularly challenging, with clearly presented plotlines, but it lacks the detail I have come to expect from fantasy novels. Considering its reading difficulty and general plot, I continue to expect "The Decoy Princess" and its sequel in the Young Adults section, not alongside Tad Williams and George RR Martin.
Furthermore, I have yet to shake the feeling that "The Decoy Princess" shares too many qualities with mediore fanfiction for me to be comfortable calling it "well written". Tess treads far to closely to Mary Sue territory at times. If I have to read one more description of Tess' curls, I may scream. True, it is very much a part of her character to care about clothing and looks, but there are only so many variations one can have of curls piled into a tight topknot. Tess' loveability also borders the implausible, as the only person who dislikes Tess turns out to be THE EVIL VILLAIN. Is she so wonderful that she's a human evil detector (if you read the sequel, the answer appears to be "yes")? No person is universally liked, and no character should be either.
Great entertainment.......2006-08-29
The Decoy Princess is the first book of Dawn Cook's new series. Tess, short for Contessa, is a Princess who has lived her life preparing for the possibility of assignation. You see, she is the fabled Princes of the ominous Red Moon Prophesy. Or, at least she thought she was until her wedding to the prince of the neighboring kingdom (Misdev) is announced and her betrothed heads towards town for the royal wedding. At this point, Tess's parents and the Chancellor Kavenlow all come clean about her life and history. You see, Tess was a beggar's child purchased to play decoy for the real princess and Kavenlow bought her to be apprentice to his Player in the Game that really runs the world. A Game immersed in poison, magic, manipulation, and cunning.
Needless to say, Tess and the Misdev Prince do not get along. He's a wee-bit unstable, you see. The Real Princess Contessa already has a boyfriend. Tess is framed for a crime and sets off to clear her name and help the real princess. As she runs, she learn more about her role in the Game, runs into a handsome cheat who travels with her, and is hunted by the Captain of the Misdev guard who is himself, a Player in the game.
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Always brilliant, ever-controversial, and very often surprising, Stanley Crouch offers trenchant essays on topics including jazz (he was for many years the jazz critic for the Village Voice), American literature, gangsta rap, modern American films and the issue of race. Crouch may startle with some of his opinions, but the clarity of his prose and the intelligence of his arguments ensure that the reader will understand why he holds his outspoken opinions.
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In this collection of essays long and short, the hugely controversial critic and author of Notes of a Hanging Judge gives us a refreshingly iconoclastic view of race in American culture and society. Whether Crouch is writing about the U.S. Constitution as blues, or jazz (Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis), he is always incisive and provocative.
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Great.......2002-10-30
Crouch continues to prove beyond any doubt to be an individual with the highest standard of literary precision. His insight into the human condition and clearness of thought are peerless in American correspndence.
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the long and the short of it.......2001-01-31
american's of all ages and colors should feel indebted to Mr. Crouch for writing some of the most interesting commentary on our american cultural scene. it is because crouch understands so well the basic promise and opportunity of american life that he can weave such wide-ranging and often disparate opinion without losing touch with the reality of the culture. most importantly, crouch establishes himself as part of the great triad of negro americans - along with the novelist albert murray and trumpet virtuoso wynton marsalis who seek to recommit americans to the power and complexity of our national music: jazz. this can only be done by tossing some left hooks at our great national embarrassment: namely the nihilism and materialism of modern popular music, especially rap music. the fact that this music has been co-opted by white suburban kids shows that it has long been a bankrupt and impotent force whose only purpose is to further depress the culture for the enrichment of a few. crouch is calling on americans of all stripes to turn their back on the 'electronic judgement day' of the mass media and the self-serving race-hustlers of the academic and literary establishment and rededicate the culture to jazz and literature based on the 'tragic optimism' that has always been at the heart of jazz/blues music and american culture. count me in.
Politically-incorrect and passionate: Crouch hard to ignore........1998-11-17
Crouch has a long history as a politically incorrect commentator on the vexed questions of race & victim politics. From what he calls "the Afrocentric hustle" to the real "race card" played in the O.J. Simpson trial; a stunning suite of essays in praise of Ralph Ellison; and how the Constitution is like the blues, I found my self in passionate agreement & furious dissent - often within the same sentence. For pure verve, style & energy Crouch is possibly the only writer who stands with Camille Paglia as a thinker who is hard to like but impossible to ignore.
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*204 color photos
* 7 x 9
* Step-by-step instructions with color photos and detailed captions
* Life-size pattern
* Photos of the live bird and background on its behavior in the wild
The pintail has been called "the most gracefully and symmetrically formed of all the duck tribe," and has long been a favorite of artists and hunters. Cajun master carver Jimmie Vizier grew up hunting pintails in the marshes of Louisiana and learned to carve decoys from his father and uncle. He has since taken the gunning-style carving to the level of art, and there is now a one- to two-year wait for his award-winning birds. In the fifth in Stackpole's popular Carving & Painting series, veteran author and photographer Curtis Badger follows Vizier through every step, from roughing out the raw block of tupelo gum to painting the vermiculation on the finished bird.
Curtis J. Badger is author of Stackpole's Bird Carving Basics and Fish Carving Basics, as well as the four previous books in the Carving & Painting series.
Customer Reviews:
Jimmie Vizier book.......2007-03-12
I enjoyed the book. I'm a very novice decoy painter and I found everything I wanted for painting a pintail drake. Jimmy did not hold anything back and I would say it is well worth it.
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