He actually applies metallic industrial paints to his work using porcupine quills to get this rich detailed effect.

Call it the porcupine theory.

The most common quills were taken from the wings of geese or ravens, although the feathers of swans and peacocks were sometimes favored for prestige.

I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says Yahweh of Armies.

But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

We reveal it to you ( Prophet Muhammad ) . You were not present when they cast their quills to see which of them should look after Mary , nor were you present when they were disputing .

We reveal it to you ( Prophet Muhammad ) . You were not present when they cast their quills to see which of them should look after Mary , nor were you present when they were disputing .

This is news of the Unknown that We send you , for you were not there when they cast lots with quills ( to determine ) who should take care of Mary , nor when they disputed it .

This is news of the Unknown that We send you , for you were not there when they cast lots with quills ( to determine ) who should take care of Mary , nor when they disputed it .

( That is of the tidings of the Unseen , that We reveal to thee for thou wast not with them , when they were casting quills which of them should have charge of Mary thou wast not with them , when they were disputing . )

( That is of the tidings of the Unseen , that We reveal to thee for thou wast not with them , when they were casting quills which of them should have charge of Mary thou wast not with them , when they were disputing . )

Lyon was the first to describe the Bornean white bearded gibbon ( Hylobates albibarbis ), the Gansu pika ( Ochotona cansus ), the Sumatran porcupine ( Hystrix sumatrae ), the shadowy broad nosed bat ( Platyrrhinus umbratus ), and two species of slow loris from Borneo, Nycticebus bancanus and Nycticebus borneanus .

Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.