What ! A eagle feather ?

What does a eagle feather have to do with creating a beloved portrait ? It is a powerful tool that I use on every commission portrait I create . Prisma color pencils and graphite pencils leave small fragments of color behind . Then these fragments can smudge and streak color across a portrait creating a mess . In comes the powerful eagle feather to the rescue. The feather is so light when swept across the portrait it removes all the pencil color fragments without them smudging. 

We have been blessed to have a nesting pair of eagles on oak island which is across the salt water bay from us . Every fall we make a trip in our kayaks to check under the great

nest to fine feathers. We have been very blessed to have found many feathers over the years. In the native Amercian culture ,  Eagle medicine is the power of the great spirit, the connection to the Devine. It is the ablity to live in the realm of spirit, and yet connected and balanced within the realm of the Earth . The feathers of the Eagle are considered to be the most sacred of healing tools. 

Eagle medicine is the gift we give ourselves to remind us of the of the freedom of the skies. Every time my hand holds my eagle feather and runs it over the sweet eyes of all the portraits I do I know deep in my soul how blessed we all are.