by Wendy EN Thomas of Lessons Learned from the Flock
Jan Brett was at the Northeastern Poultry Congress this weekend. She was showing her birds and in her spare time, she gave an art lesson and signed copies of her new book “Cinders.”
I caught up with her at her stand (she was selling some of her award-winning flock) and talked to her about the illustrations in her book of which I had just written an article about for a newspaper. At the time she was holding a Silver Phoenix and even though I had complimented her on her lifelike chicken drawings (and begged her to do another book – perhaps Rhode Island Red Riding Hood?), she modestly said that her drawings didn’t do the chickens justice. She pointed to the feathers of the bird she was holding and asked, how anyone could draw such intricate beauty?
I know what she means.
3 Comments
I love the patterns on my chicken feathers. When they were chicks I use to save all the feathers as they molted and grew. I washed them and displayed them in small glass bottles like little vases of flowers. Too bad they eventually fall apart. I do love the way God has made each so lovely!
The beauty and complexity of bird feathers is amazing! I teach science, and when you really look at animals, plants, humans, anything in creation really, you come to realize that it WAS all created and couldn’t have come about by chance! There is too much evidence against evolution – even in how bird feathers were made – to not believe in a Creator who made all things!
An artist that shows at a gallery in Fort Worth draws bird feathers so detailed that I actually weep from the beauty!