Mixed media eggs – Page 7

Squirrel, acorn cap, and fluorescent egg

Squirrel, acorn cap, and fluorescent egg made with polymer clay and a real cockatiel egg under the yellow fluorescent polymer clay which covers it. Squirrel was made with left over polymer clay that has flower petals in it from previous objects and a little brown and black polymer clay. I cured this squirrel on his side so his tail would not fall off in the baking. And fyi, the acorn cap (which was from a Bur Oak (Burr Oak) or Mossycup Oak is really quite big (close to 2 inches) ) shrank big-time as it dried out. This was just a fun egg for fall.

Watercolor and ink quick egg

I think this was a combined egg, with my grandaughter Corin, who visited this August. We worked on some things together. So this had some paint that didn’t dry (pink) I am not sure why, I don’t think it was oil paint, that is my addition, plus some shading. And then after 4 months it wasn’t tacky any more so I added some black sharpie, and a little Varathane. LOL, not terrific, but something to remind me of great family projects.

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Fingernail polish on egg shells mosaic egg

This egg is not sterling by any stretch, but I posted it just as a record of using this technique, which btw I will likely abandon. I just painted some half-egg shells washed after cracking (for breakfast) and dried them and painted the outsides with fingernail polish abandoned decades ago by my daughter.
What is curious is that the fingernail polish changes the way the egg shells break, kind of an interesting twist. Anyway, the previous way of getting colored egg shels was using pysanky dye but that fades with time. Markers are ok but they leave the white edge around each piece (as does using fingernail polish) so these are just issues with this medium. I do like the egg to be black (in this case it was a brown egg shell and I did not change the color) as that gives it a stained glass, or mosaic, or tiled look.

mosaic egg with shells painted with fingernail polish