Grainger McKoy: Three Mallards (2005)

Watercolor sketch

Grainger uses watercolor sketches like the one above to preserve and note the precise coloring of the non-feather elements of a bird. The colors on the feet and bill (unlike those on feathers) degrade quickly with time, so must be recorded from a live or freshly killed specimen.

Three Mallards: 2005
Basswood, steel, bronze and oil paint
Collection of Mr. James A. Kennedy

Three Mallards uses a fully connected infrastructure of heat-treated steel for support. This is somewhat of a departure from his earlier works, where the connecting steel feathers will usually terminate into their respective birds with nuts and bolts.

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	Order A Catalogue This sixty-four page color catalogue, with a biographical essay by noted author James Kilgo, was published in 1999 to coincide with Grainger's exhibit at Brookgreen Gardens.			Acquire Sculpture Grainger has cast a number of his original wood sculptures into exquisite bronze and sterling silver limited editions. Created in the traditional lost-wax process, they have the same incredible detail as his wood sculpture.