#100DucksDC: Ducks 1-2

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The original duck decoy next two the first two duck molds.

I’m going to put one hundred luminescent duck sculptures in a visible location somewhere in Washington, D.C. This will occur at some yet-to-be-determined time after I’ve made a hundred ducks.

I’ve told some people about this plan, and they’ve asked why I would to this. The best answer I can give is that many people in Washington, D.C. take themselves rather seriously and I think it would do them good to happen upon one hundred illuminated ducks.

I’m using a sculpting method I learned from following Mark Jenkins’s work online, a method I also used when to make a life-sized model of my wife reading a copy of my book.

I’m making ducks because I have an old duck decoy that has been in my family for several generations. Its simple shape lends itself well to this type of mold.

Follow the fabrication of each fowl here.