Thursday, September 19, 2013

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Some Folk Designs

Oak Leaves and Acorns (strength and persistence; acorns represent preparing for the future)

Sun (life force or God's love)

The border has many meanders: a wave meander (wealth and baptism), a vine meander with berries (life, a bountiful harvest or rewards for good deeds), and a saw (fire, life-giving heat). 



Plant Motif (spring, renewal and creation)
Flower Motif (charity and good will)
These pysanky are all folk pysanky featured in Elyjiw's Sixty Score of Easter Eggs.

Wheat


Egg Number 19 from Ukrainian Easter Egg Design Book 3.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Four Seasons Deer (II)


 
This is a reworking and re-coloration of Egg No. 13 from Ukrainian Easter Egg Design Book 2 which I posted in its original form (and another more ornate form) as "Four Seasons" in December 2012. 

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Morning Swallows (Goose Egg)


This is my own design using a variant of the saddlebags division. The coloration is non-traditional. See also an earlier and simpler version of this design concept with Acid-Etched Swallows.

Friday, September 6, 2013

Flowers With Wheat




This pysanka is a near-replica of one that appears in Ukrainian Easter Eggs: How We Make Them

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Autumn Sun




This pysanky is very loosely based on one by Taras Horodetsky and the parts that are mine (the medallions with the star or deer) are greatly influenced by his style.