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.
Little cockatiel egg with polymer clay striped cane made with glitter red, black and some metalic colors. The egg stand just over one inch high.
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.
Does anyone but me remember the stockings that came in L’eggs egg containers? I thought those were the coolest containers, and frankly bought the stockings just for the containers (though I did wear the stockings in the 1980s or so when women still wore dresses and skirts to work.
I made many many easter eggs for kids and family from them. This is one that I happened to keep…. two sides of the sky, the sun and themoon. Likely thiswas just Marks-a-Lot, or Sharpie, I don’t even remember when Sharpies came on the market.
Four year old grandaughter used Fimo polymer clay to make this cute egg. She told me the name of the cartoon characters that she used, but I forgotten the name. Too cute.
Chicken egg mosaic made with chicken egg shells and pysanky dyes, made the same way as previous post, this one has a red maltese cross design on each side, and a black background on the egg made prior to adding the colored shells.
Chicken egg mosaic with chicken egg shells died with pysanky dyes. This is kind of fun for those of you who like tiny pieces to put together in interesting designs. I actually had some old pysanky dyes which I probably should have thrown out, but instead I took some emptied egg shells, and crushed them, and put them into the dyes, letting them sit until there was color. I just turned the eggshells out onto paper and spread them and let them dry.
Using a tiny bit of white glue, I positioned different colors of broken egg shell on a whole, but emptied, egg. When I wanted a dark grout like appearance behind the egg I used a black sharpie marker and colored the whole egg black then put the colored shells on. 