Jay McEvers Fish Decoys

Friday, November 16, 2018

Listing decoys on Ebay

In 2000, I entered the computer age with a digital camera, and an Ebay address called Hollowtop. Over the next fourteen years, over a thousand photos were stored in Cyberspace. Over 700 of the decoy photos were downloaded and put into this book in 2014. It is a record of my work during that time.

Sunday, November 11, 2018

Decoy picture taken at the bird feeder.

Unshelled sunflower seeds for the birds.
Cracking them open gives them something to do.

Fish Decoys on display

at the Milwaukee Art Museum

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Penguin Carving

Winter is here. Ice! Ice! Walk like a penguin.

Took a break from fish decoys, and carved a penguin for my wife.

6" H X 7" W

Sunday, October 14, 2018

Traditional Working Decoys

Old fashioned working decoys were often made from a pine board salvaged from an apple box. Lead was melted over an old wood stove in a tin can, and their metal fins were often tweeked to swim.

Shown here are decoys made from a dense Ponderas pine. It was originally purchased in high mountain Montana when I lived there, and rediscovered recently while cleaning out the corners of my wood shed.

The old timers used a little red paint to make their decoys look like a wounded fish. Or maybe the red was the only color they had left after painting the barn!