Friday Egg: Butterfly Tree

A beautiful blue egg swathed in lacy tendrils - it's a butterfly tree.

I started with an egg dyed Asparagus and waxed in all the stems and leaves.  After I washed it down to white with Ivory dish soap, I dyed the egg Golden Yellow for the leaves and the butterflies.  There are two lighter yellow butterflies just for fun - maybe they aren't ripe yet?  The final color is Peacock Blue.

Friday Egg: JoJo's Beautiful Creation

My daughter JoJo and I were hanging out in my studio one lazy day.  She was coloring her princess coloring pages and I was working on an egg.  She grabbed a blank egg and scribbled on it with a pencil and proudly showed me her work. I thought it might be fun to "enhance" her work so a few days later I outlined all of her pencil marks with wax and then dyed and waxed in all the different colors.  I think it is actually quite nice and I may try to incorporate the idea in a more organized fashion on some of my own eggs.

Happy Friday!

Friday Egg: Captain America!

Doesn't this look like I should be posting it on Independence Day?  It's the egg that Captain America would have on his mantel if he collected eggs.

It is deceptively simple, but takes a lot of prep work with a pencil to make sure that the lines are parallel and even.  One of these days I will do a tutorial on the pencil guidelines for each kind of egg so you can see what goes into it.

I was trying to use rich holiday colors, but was tired of the usual red and green.  Not sure if I succeeded in making it a Christmas holiday egg, but if you need a Fourth of July egg this is it!

Happy Friday!

Friday Egg: Cosmos on Blue

Today's egg is a lovely blueish-purple color with my variation of the traditional sakvy design.  Scarves of traditional diamonds are encircled by white and yellow cosmos.

Happy Friday!

Friday Egg: One of my all-time favorites

Friday Egg today is one of my favorite designs. It is completely based on a chiyogami or yuzen Japanese printed paper pattern, so I take no credit for the lovely abstract wagon wheel design.  I dyed a goose egg Gold, did the first layer of waxing and then washed the egg back down to white and waxed those areas that are white.  After that I dyed and re-dyed the egg, layering up shades of gray and black while waxing between each different dye bath.

It has been a busy month for traveling, so no time for making new eggs these past couple of weeks.  I hope to have a beautiful new egg for you by next Friday.  Nose to the grindstone again next week: Christmas is approaching fast and I have to get busy making new and fabulous eggs to sell!

Happy Friday!

Friday Egg: Ring Around the Rosie

A new design today for Friday Egg. I came up with this when I was penciling in a traditional Sakvy (saddlebags) design.  Instead of dividing the sections I just decided to let one flower bouquet lead into the next.  A touch of gilding at the centers of the pink and white flowers adds a perky accent, especially against the black background.

Happy Friday!

Friday Egg: California Poppy

I love California poppies.  My mom has them in her spring garden and they are such an eye-catching neon orange that they are impossible to resist.  The Friday Egg this week is a goose egg sized tribute.  I did a little bit with gilding which I don't think adds too much to the egg, but you can tell me what you think.