Monoprinting with feathers

A lot of my book has been about experimenting with texture and pattern to tell narrative. My subject being a raven, I thought that using feathers to create a pattern or texture would be an interesting way of making images for my book. So...I bought some feathers online and did some monoprints with them.

What do I think?

• I am really happy with the final results. I think that mono-printing as a process has worked really well to capture the texture and beauty of the feathers. 
• Sticking to the monotone colour palette has worked well - especially as the feathers themselves picked up some ink, this created an interesting 3 tonal effect. 
• I think that delicacy of these images could work really well to contrast with the common perception of ravens being an evil and intimidating bird.

What could I do with these monoprints?

• Use them as inside pages for the front and back of the book.
• Jordan suggested that I used them to create the title - so that the text itself would contain a feathered texture (this could make for a really clean cut and beautiful cover but does it fit well with the atmosphere of the book?)
• Use it as a front cover. 
• Work with the monoprints as another texture to create images - I am interesting in experimenting with this to create the image to do with murdered souls being present in ravens.