Blue Flower Bouquet ("embossed" style drop-pull)

This design with "embossed" colored waxes is loosely based off of a dyed drop-pull pysanka featured in Larry Kozlowski's compilation of Slavic patterns. 

Regal Poppies

My own design using a non-traditional division.

Rosy Butterflies on Blue

This pysanka is loosely based off of one featured in Ukrainian Easter Eggs and How We Make Them. I've changed the colors entirely and made variations to the design, mostly in the cross pattern with stars. This is a diasporan design that is probably based on a folk design featuring swallows rather than butterflies. More on that later...

Autumn Windmill with Wheat

My own design.

Tree of Life II (Goose Egg)

Today I'm posting a special pysanka I just made for a friend who recently moved back to her home country. It is a revision of the duck pysanka, Tree of Life , that I wrote in 2014. Using a goose egg gave me a lot more flexibility in color choice. (Of course, those pesky cracks around the drill hole never show up until you're committed.)

Drop Pull with Colored Waxes

Both of these designs are inspired by traditional dyed drop pull pysanky by Taras Hordetsky. Still a work in progress but I'm happy with the results.

Decorating eggs with color waxes that are not removed is a Romanian tradition. These waxes are the Green Envy and Sapphire waxes which some pysanka artists use for normal writing and removal with dyes. The red wax is a mixture of clear wax and a color block purchased from PysankyUSA.

Flying Close to the Sun II

I was working on this update to Flying Close to the Sun at the Pysanky USA Retreat, however the pysanka did not make it past red before rolling on the floor and breaking! I decided to clean off the wax anyway and am mystified at how well the colors work together despite being incomplete. I am planning to do some variations on this with this color scheme in mind. Pardon the "dirty" appearance as I couldn't completely clean the wax off because of the large cracks.

Many of the motifs in this pysanka are inspired by the work of Taras Horodetsky although the overall composition is my own work.