I haven't done a painted feather in forever D: This seemed like a good way to practice...of course I decided to try my first double feather and it took much longer than I expected!

I also forgot how much a pain in the butt scanning/photographing painted feathers is. This is a scan, but I liked the colors of the photographs better...but the photographs don't get all the detail! So I had to choose one. Oh well.

This started off as a pair of plain old gryphons, but then I figured I'd jazz them up with some color. After all, if they live in the jungle, then why can't they be colorful like everything else?

Acrylic on two turkey feathers, approximately 15 inches long