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.

Friday Egg: Dancing Scarlet Poppies

I love poppies.  I love playing with the shapes of the petals, their dancing stems, seed pods and leaves.  Everything about them is fun for me to draw.  I really like the loosely dancing poppy stems paired with the traditional stars at the bottom part of the egg.  A nice pairing of formal and informal, static and moving.

If you are interested in this egg, take a look at it on Etsy!  

Happy Friday!

Friday Egg: Happy Owl

A completely contemporary egg this week!  I am jumping on the owl bandwagon with this owl on a leafy branch.  He was a lot of fun to make, just stripes and dots, nets and bars in bright and happy colors.  I am working with the gilding, so added some golden dots to the owl body as well as the dots in the background.

Hope you like him!  Happy Friday

Friday Egg: Eight Poppies, Eight Ferns

A new design this week!  I was just doodling along with my usual divisions and came up with this design of skinny triangles.  I thought it was perfect for single poppies, sort of like a series of bud vases.  And then the ferns fit right in since they are so geometric.  I will be doing more of this design in the future, so keep an eye out!

I started with a white egg for the basic division lines.  I used a medium kistka for the triangles divisions and the star design at top and bottom.  Next was Golden Wheat, a rich deep yellow that I really love right now.  Again, I used a medium kistka to make the division lines on the star at top and bottom.  The poppies were done with the XX fine point kistka, and the fern leaves were done with a fine kistka.  The next color was green, then orange, scarlet and finally black.

I hope you enjoy it!