➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Tesumph]

I was an excellent drawer specializing in portraits. I never could paint. Nowadays, I consider my camera as my art medium.

I knew it!
Bless us with your portraits! Don’t make me beg..

 

[R2elk]

Really? Portraits of people? Horses? Pencils or charcoal? Neither?

People (faces), horses (heads) in pencil at first, charcoal toward the end.

I knew it!
Bless us with your portraits! Don’t make me beg..

Sorry, they are all gone. The people always wanted to keep them so they got to keep them.

I did do a bronze of a bugling elk head and a bronze bust of the mule deer head that is hanging on my wall. I also worked in leather even doing a portrait of a young woman I knew. That also is now in her possession.

 

[Conan]

People (faces), horses (heads) in pencil at first, charcoal toward the end.

Sorry, they are all gone. The people always wanted to keep them so they got to keep them.

I did do a bronze of a bugling elk head and a bronze bust of the mule deer head that is hanging on my wall. I also worked in leather even doing a portrait of a young woman I knew. That also is now in her possession.

Very cool. Bronze.... you're hardcore.
Do you do leather pyrography?

 

[R2elk]

Very cool. Bronze.... you're hardcore.
Do you do leather pyrography?

No. I don't do anything anymore with leather other than to make a new belt when an old one wears out.

I would have liked to do more with bronze but the local junior college dropped their bronze casting class leaving me without anywhere to do any amateur bronze casting.

 

[Conan]

No. I don't do anything anymore with leather other than to make a new belt when an old one wears out.

How did you do a portrait on leather? Carving?

 

[R2elk]

How did you do a portrait on leather? Carving?

Carving and dyes.

 

[Conan]

Carving and dyes.

Super cool. I have a friend that works in leather. She started working at a gun holster place. She makes all sorts of cool things now. Awesome stuff, but real hell on her hands. Only minor carving and dying. I wish you had kept something to show us.

 

[R2elk]

Super cool. I have a friend that works in leather. She started working at a gun holster place. She makes all sorts of cool things now. Awesome stuff, but real hell on her hands. Only minor carving and dying. I wish you had kept something to show us.

Some people just can't hang onto anything. I really enjoyed when I was doing wood carvings too. That is too hard on my hands now.

 

[FortCluck]

I thought you were vegetarian or something?

I eat plant based... I am growing meat chickens for my family. I'm butchering them myself.

I don't eat plant based to save animals, I do it for my health.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

In honor of Pebbles, @BantyChooks favorite rooster who passed last summer.
11x14, oil pastel.
That is beyond gorgeous.

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