Anarcostar
16-07-2009, 10:45 AM
This evolved yesterday and was sooooo cool!
Got large feathers we'd found on previous travels (we used crow and ibis feathers) and cut the quill tip end off diagonally to form a nib.
For ink we used neat food colouring (which we had left over in cupboard, not to be used in food again since we went additive free :)).
Just dipped the quill nib straight into to bottle of food colouring and write/ scribble/ draw away!! We used a seperate feather for each colour (because I'm anal about mixing the colours :rolleyes).
The straight food colouring gives such brilliant colours (don't know if you can get black food colouring?? I imagine you can). Though next time I would find better bottles for the colours - the FC bottles are a bit lightweight and tip over too easy.
Got large feathers we'd found on previous travels (we used crow and ibis feathers) and cut the quill tip end off diagonally to form a nib.
For ink we used neat food colouring (which we had left over in cupboard, not to be used in food again since we went additive free :)).
Just dipped the quill nib straight into to bottle of food colouring and write/ scribble/ draw away!! We used a seperate feather for each colour (because I'm anal about mixing the colours :rolleyes).
The straight food colouring gives such brilliant colours (don't know if you can get black food colouring?? I imagine you can). Though next time I would find better bottles for the colours - the FC bottles are a bit lightweight and tip over too easy.