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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Happy Easter!

This year's paska bread with some of the pysanky my mother and I made this past week.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Friday, March 29, 2013

Monday, March 25, 2013

Couple of Chickens (Jumbo Duck Egg)



My own design. A non-traditional division.

Poppies and Wheat


A slightly modified version of a pysanka featured in Ukrainian Easter Eggs: How We Make Them.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Poppies


Design modified from Iryna Vakh.

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Pair of Fish (Goose Egg)


My own design with inspiration from a fish pysanka featured in Ukrainian Easter Eggs: How We Make Them.

Stylized flowers


Based on a design by Luba Perchyshyn with my own coloration.

Friday, March 15, 2013

Acid-Etched (and dyed) Pysanky -- Yet Another Geometrical Study of Crosses and Stars



This is my own design... still working towards a balance of features (for example, it might work better on a jumbo duck egg or a goose egg). I've tried it both as an etched egg and with the typical dying process with some small differences.

Monday, March 11, 2013

Friday, March 8, 2013

Star-Crossed (Jumbo Duck Egg)


Variation on a Hutsul pysanky in Elyjiw's Sixty Score of Easter Eggs.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Windmill with Pussy Willow


This egg is featured in Ukrainian Easter Eggs: How We Make Them.

Sunday, March 3, 2013

White Flowers on Red Pysanka




From Elyjiw's Sixty Score of Easter Eggs.