Saving the World: One Egg at a Time

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Horse at Pasture

My own design.

More information on egg and symbolism...

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Geese Under the Apple Tree II (Goose Egg)

My own design. A refinement of Geese Under the Apple Tree. It's funny how things come out differently the second time around...

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Flying Close to the Sun

This interesting division came from a pysanka by Patty Wiszuk-De Angelo featured on the Pysanky Showcase website. The design is my own, although highly influenced by Taras Horodetsky's style.

Monday, February 10, 2014

Hedgehog and Porcupine

This was a commissioned project using my own design -- porcupines and hedgehogs are not traditional subjects for pysanky!

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Many Suns

My own design based on traditional motifs.

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.