Category: Pysanky eggs

This pysanka egg is from the middle 1990s I bet. I didn’t keep track of dates.

This is probably an egg I did at the beginning of “egg season” which for me starts around the first of January every year (haha).  The first ones of each season are kind of -hurry and see- eggs, because I am always wondering whether this is a technique that I can revive each new spring season.

This pysanka egg was made a few years ago, but was returned to me via my son. I think sometimes I am grieved by the disruption of families by strife and misunderstanding and lack of forgiveness.  I wonder if my grandson will understand these things. Here is an egg I made for him. It has kind of a video game track look to it.. ha ha.

It is hard to reconstruct what went through my mind two decades ago when I likely began this egg, but it is more about lines than space.

I think I should have been just a little more careful with the wax and kistka on this egg. It suffers from what I call “hurry up and finish” syndrome, the story of my life.  If I could just turn down the dial on the “speed” which seems to overpower my life I bet I could make better pyranky eggs.

Here is a little “less” delicate egg pysanka egg. I wonder if someone could figure out how to make a pattern that is really readable and post it as a pdf online.  I tried that at one point many years ago, I will try to look up what I did then and see if it is really all that possible, or practical.

Likely made at a similar point in time

I am just listing these eggs by number because I don’t want to figure out how else to do it.  This is just a journal in case anyone wants to see how fun this particular technique is, and it is soooo simple. My kids and I did this on a regular basis for many years.

I picked these eggs up out of the closet, so many of the designs I don’t even remember doing.  I find it strange to look at some of the ideas that sprang into my head while doing these.  It seems like yesterday, standing by the kitchen sink, holding a kistka, trying to squeeze some art that I loved into the rigors of being a mom and career person.  How does anyone do it all. This particular egg looks to me like a “party”, ha ha, birthday party or something like that. I was obviously working on lines and dots in this particular case.