Pysanky
posted by Geninne at 10:15 AM
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- Name: Geninne
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I am thinking that if you have ZERO plans of eating the egg, you could do it using making fluid instad of the wax. I did it the traditional Ukranian way many times before, but if you don't have a kit, I am better the fluid and some food colouring dyes would work just as well!
That would be MASKING FLUID not making. *sigh*
That is beautiful indeed and something I would love to try. I have seen many traditional decorated eggs in Hungary but didn't know how they were done. So interesting!
hello from Ukraine lol
i was so surprised to see pysanky here!
my mom and my grandma use onions peel to die eggs and decorate it with leaves) you put a leaf on egg, fix it and then put it into onion peel. eggs become deep orange and redish with white leaves silhouettes :)
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atp
how beautiful, what a talent! can't wait to see some more!!!
You make the prettiest things! :-)
Incredible you are an artist from head to toe. I'd like to meet you in person. A thousand kisses from Spain.
I just visited the Ukrainian Museum and Library in Stamford, Ct and saw so many lovely Pysanky eggs...what a lovely job you did ♥
Ít's a beautiful egg! I'm curious to see more of them. I know that the kystka is difficult to use. I did some batik in the 70th's and struggled with that thing a long time. Wish you lots of luck with it. Hugzz...Peebee
I collect eggs and show them off at Easter here. Pysanky is difficult.I like painting my eggs.AriadnefromGreece!
such a sweet egg!
How beautiful. I especially like the fern you drew.
Pisanki:)))) I,m going to make some too, but to make it easier I though of using liquid gum instead of wax. But if I wanted to use wax maybe a tjanting ( it`s a tool used to put wax on batik ) woukd be helpfull?
Ps. pisanki are very popular not only in Ukraine, but in all western Europe, here in Poland too. And also KRASZANKI ( I thing you wolud write it this way: KRASHANKY). They are in one colour without decoration and what`s important they are painted in a brew made only from natural painting products like oak`s or alder tree`s bark, walnuts` nutshells, beetroots etc.
Greetings from Poland:)
Oh, and one more thing. My mum, grandmum and her mum used to polish died eggs with oil- butter usually to make it shiny.
How nice to see it. We still do it a lot in Poland. I think we use more flower patterns than geometric. When I was a child we did not have any kit so we did it with wax crayon and candle. I remember it was fun.
Dorota
i really want to try some naturally dyed ones
thank you so much for the inspiration
oooh that's so pretty !!
If Margie cares to share, I'd love to know how to make the naturally dyed ones :)
xoxo
wow what a lot of nice comments and ideas this one generated. love pysany, love your one color effort.
Holy smokes but is that wonderful.
So earthy and beautiful! These remind me of wood-burned gourd art.
Didn't know that just 2 colors could look so gorgeous!
That is so beautiful! I love the two-color design. My mom used to make pysanky eggs but I've never tried it. Look forward to seeing more of your efforts in this medium!
The wax resist looks gorgeous with the brown of the egg peeking through and being brought out by the brown in the little nest. Beautiful. Between you and Margie, I am in heaven. I just completed a project inspired by Margie (come see), now I just might have to give this wax resist method a try. Carolina
beautiful! do pop over and see mine on my blog!
Just for more inspiration:
http://www.zgstl.kei.pl/dyscypliny/plastyka.htm
The site is in Polish, but the pictures say enough.
The ones from Lowicz (with characteristic cock) are decorated with paper cutworks glued to the eggs.
How awesome! You're using the kit. My mom and I had such a fun time taking our egg decorating class. It included her setting a paper towel on fire (accidentally) in the middle of class and me having to stomp it out (and I directed her to please NOT drop it on the table littered with other paper towels!). Who said decorating eggs was boring?! ~Mara
that is looking great and I admire how you could draw this fine lines on a slippery egg!
i learnt something new...love the design!
I´m doing something similar with my Grandma from Hungary each year in eastertime. But we use the paring of red onions. The eggs become a red-brown color. We use nylon socks to put leafs on the eggs or paint with beewax on them. I´ve never heard of a kistka ( we painted with a needle or a toothpick-very difficult!), but now i´m going to buy one on ebay :) Thanks! Your blog is the most beautiful i´ve ever seen!
Very pretty! Have to check out this technique.
gorgeous! i love the black. it makes the egg look like gold leaf.
I'm taking a class this week-end...hope mine looks half as good as yours.
It's just lovely.
pisanka is polish not ukrainian!
You have to make your birds on this eggs.
Easter eggs are very traditional thing in my country, too, Geninne.
There are many different ones with beautiful decorations and techniques and we call them "pirhi" and on some areas "pisanice".
Maybe it would interest you one of our present time artist, that developed a special technique:
He makes little holes into the egg-shells and they are now called "Vrhniški pirhi".
What is amazing about that, that he makes about 3.000 holes per egg!
(and his record is 17.000, could you believe! - it took him 2 months to finished it)
Here are 2 links for you
(the video is in Slovene, but the art-eggs speak for themselves):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpCZyU3F9EU
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0414_060414_easter.html
Lep pozdrav / Greetings!
Polish Pisanki!:))) how great is to see them on your beautiful blog:))
hugs and happy weekend!
J.
Beautiful pysanky and great article thanks for sharing your artistic talent.
Wow. I love the simple yet intricate design. Great job, and definitely inspiring me to try this myself!
Beautiful!