Saving the World: One Egg at a Time: December 2017

Monday, December 11, 2017

Diasporan Deer

This is a near replica of a diasporan design featured on a UGS postcard (Series 2, No. 47107). This pysanka incorporates many Hutsul-inspired motifs and uses a Hutsul color scheme.

Design References

Some of my posts make references to "UGS" catalogues and books. These are publications of Ukrainian Gift Shop, Inc. To date, they have compiled five books of egg designs. I try to acknowledge them or Luba Perchyshyn (whose designs predominate the books) when I use their designs.

Two additional books sold by UGS and associated with their shop are Eggs Beautiful: How to Make Ukrainian Easter Eggs by Johanna Luciow, Ann Kmit, and Loretta Luciow (1975); and Ukrainian Easter Eggs and How We Make Them by Anne Kmit, Loretta Luciow, Johanna Luciow, and Luba Perchyshyn (1979).

I am lucky to own Zenon Elyjiw's Sixty Score of Easter Eggs: A Comprehensible Album of Ukrainian Easter Eggs (1994). The artists whose eggs are featured in this compilation go unnamed, so I will just cite the book when I use designs from this source.

I also use designs and get inspiration from other pysanky artists, and I will credit them when necessary.

Saving the World: One Egg at a Time

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Monday, December 11, 2017

Diasporan Deer

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Wheat with Wild Flowers (Revisited)