Friday Fish Fry

An oldie but goodie today!  I love this traditional design from the Ukrainian Gift Shop's Design Book 2 and have recreated it many times.  It is such a satisfying design because everything is interconnected, creating the fish design by interlocking shapes and small details, reminiscent of Escher.  In the original, they use a brown egg, with yellow and brick dyes.  I chose to use my current favorite Golden Wheat and Turquoise on a white chicken egg, with a final color of black.

I hope you enjoy it!

Friday Egg: Heraldic Shield

This egg reminds me of a shield or coat of arms. I think it may be the diagonal element on the almond or shield shapes beneath. The colors are prefect for fall, which I hope will arrive soon because I am sick of 100 degree days.

I started with a white chicken egg, waxed all white lines, then dipped in Golden Wheat and waxed, Asparagus and waxed, then a final color of Dark Red

Happy Friday, my Lords and Ladies!

Friday Egg: Rainbow Brite!

It's 1982 all over again with this rainbow-hued chicken egg.  I started with with outlines but next time I think I will start with a red egg so I can do the true rainbow order of ROYGBIV.  

Happy Friday!

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!