The San artists applied the paint with porcupine quills and plant fronds.

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He has also worked on films including Quills, Thunderbirds, Little Voice, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband and The Avengers.

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We also grouped together similar tools to reduce the size of the list--the pencil is a stand in for pens, quills, and brushes.

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Then he rises, like some weird sea creature from the deep, his pupils disappear, and he somehow makes his hair bristle like quills.

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