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This is a somewhat unique undertaking in that the feather was "trimmed" before it ever had a painting on it, and also that it is extremely small (the whole thing fit on my scanner, and the feather is less than an inch and a half wide at its widest point!). That said, this feather went up for sale with the offer to have someone purchase it and I would paint something small and simple on it. (the closeup is twice as large as it is in reality on my screen!) The winner chose a white egret.

I spent quite a bit of time trimming a gorgeous guinea hen primary wing feather (this was a new "style" for me, and came months before any of my more recent feathers). The feather itself has additional guinea-fowl feathers around its base, as well as some rare palm turkey marabou feathers. Below that is natural white rabbit fur, wrapped in dark brown sinew and white leather, as well as four strips of fur dangling from the bottom. What really took me some time on this piece was the hand-beaded base that goes all the way around the quill. Though it is hard to tell from the photo, those are silver and amber colored glass seed beads. From there dangles two additional strings of glass, sterling silver, and wooden beads, which ends in two tin cones and 7 inch long pieces of chocolate brown wild horse hair (I was told by a native american friend that wild horses have better magic ).

The feather, including quill, is about 9 and a half inches long and up to around an inch and a half wide. The extra "dangles" are an ADDITIONAL 10 and a half inches long from the wrapped quill.

Considering how damn small this thing is, I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out (although the beading around the quill, if you can see it, too way, way too long to do). I wish the scans/photos hadn't have killed all the pretty colors I blended in with the white of egret, however. :-/

-Kymba

Description
This is a somewhat unique undertaking in that the feather was "trimmed" before it ever had a painting on it, and also that it is extremely small (the whole thing fit on my scanner, and the feather is less than an inch and a half wide at its widest point!). That said, this feather went up for sale with the offer to have someone purchase it and I would paint something small and simple on it. (the closeup is twice as large as it is in reality on my screen!) The winner chose a white egret.

I spent quite a bit of time trimming a gorgeous guinea hen primary wing feather (this was a new "style" for me, and came months before any of my more recent feathers). The feather itself has additional guinea-fowl feathers around its base, as well as some rare palm turkey marabou feathers. Below that is natural white rabbit fur, wrapped in dark brown sinew and white leather, as well as four strips of fur dangling from the bottom. What really took me some time on this piece was the hand-beaded base that goes all the way around the quill. Though it is hard to tell from the photo, those are silver and amber colored glass seed beads. From there dangles two additional strings of glass, sterling silver, and wooden beads, which ends in two tin cones and 7 inch long pieces of chocolate brown wild horse hair (I was told by a native american friend that wild horses have better magic ).

The feather, including quill, is about 9 and a half inches long and up to around an inch and a half wide. The extra "dangles" are an ADDITIONAL 10 and a half inches long from the wrapped quill.

Considering how damn small this thing is, I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out (although the beading around the quill, if you can see it, too way, way too long to do). I wish the scans/photos hadn't have killed all the pretty colors I blended in with the white of egret, however. :-/

-Kymba