My Uncle carved these decoys and asked me if I could paint them for him in a traditional antique looking style that would have been used probably 60 years ago. It's not easy trying to make something look old and weatherbeaten, not to mention more simplistic than I'm used to. I tried to do what he asked of me, but I did give the heads of the fish more detail than the bodies. It felt weird that they had no fins to paint ... Like amputee fish.