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The Feather Painting

May 17th, 2008        
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Since there are so many forwarded emails, so I decided to created one new category for this section ~ FWD emails. Today I received one about these awesome feather arts called the Feather Painting. You can start to paint one today, I can tell you that it is not that easy. You need to hundreds of feathers to try out. The next morning, your mum discovered that all the chickens were all bald so as those birds in cage, lol. I think those are eagle’s feather, what do you think? Check out more pictures after the break.










This is how a featherless chicken looks like, lol.

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  • http://www.featherlady.net Julie Thompson

    HA! Ok, I literally LOL’ed when I saw your poor pink bald rooster! :D

    These paintings are all on peacock feathers, naturally-shed. The way to tell if a feather fell out by molting is the quill-tip will taper at the end, like a pencil. That’s because when the feather wears out and is ready to be shed, it cuts of its blood supply by shriveling at the tip so that it”dies” and can fall out. A feather that is very alive and plucked will look more like a straw at the end, because there are still active blood vessels running up into it – a nasty painful experience for the bird to have that happen, I’m sure!

    Yes, many versions of that anonymous email are still circulating with no information about the origins of the paintings. You can find them at my website though, and many others:
    http://www.featherlady.net
    I’ve since begun using turkey feathers too. And no, I don’t pull those out either! ;D

    Cheers!
    ~Julie~