Tom Boozer's workshop looks pretty much like you would expect of someone who makes working hollow body wood decoys. Boozer's decoys are not only pieces of art; they also are made and expected to be ...

Last year's winner in the World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition's Decorative Lifesize Wildfowl category, "Livingstone's Turaco" by Thomas Horn. Ward Museum Last year's winner at the World ...

The artist Anne Buckwalter has amassed a collection of hand-carved avian decoys. By Julia Halperin The painter Anne Buckwalter, 38, says she doesn’t like clutter, but she makes an exception for bird ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - Hand-carved duck decoys can be works of art and collector's items. But for a couple of New Orleans men, it's more about a passion for carving the lifelike decoys and seeing ...

Rare examples of a uniquely American folk art — hand-carved duck decoys — will be on display at a fund-raiser for Minot’s Ledge Ducks Unlimited, a group that raises money to protect wetlands. The ...

It was an ordinary log from a paulownia tree, a seasoned slice of timber that, in another life, might have gone up in smoke in the fireplace of the Carson home in Havre de Grace. But Dan Carson had ...

When Tom Modin of Kearney goes duck hunting, he is surrounded by his own artwork — decoys he has carved and hand-painted. Brent Frazee [email protected] Tom Modin was putting his artwork on display.

EDINA, Minn. -- Doug Lodermeier was bursting with stories about Minnesota duck-decoy carvers. We were in Lodermeier's basement office in early December, thumbing through a computer copy of his new ...

Hand-crafted wooden duck decoys, with their intricate carvings and painted designs, attract more than just unsuspecting ducks that mistake them for the real thing and end up getting bagged by hunters.

Until he carved his first decoys, Jerry Talton was, by his own description, a “wild-ass redneck surfer dude” from the North Carolina coast. His brother was actually the duck hunter, and one year, ...

Duck hunters are cut from a rare cloth. The sport is expensive and time consuming, pushing marriages and work to their brink, and the birds we pursue move best in the very conditions that keep most ...