40 Days of Pysanky 29: Spring Showers

This chicken-egg pysanka is a modification of "Shower of Flowers," a goose pysanka featured in Lorrie Popow's Patterns for Ukrainian-Style Easter Eggs.

40 Days of Pysanky 28: Six Roses

This is a replica of a pysanka from Vira Manko's The Ukrainian Folk Pysanka (Table 33, No. 29), from Kyiv Province. The first lines were in gold on this pysanka, and the final color is etched back to white.

40 Days of Pysanky 27: Swallow Tails

This is a replica of a pysanka from Vira Manko's The Ukrainian Folk Pysanka (Table 38, No. 28), from Kherson Province, in the south of Ukraine.

40 Days of Pysanky 26: Red Sun

This is a replica of a pysanka from Vira Manko's The Ukrainian Folk Pysanka (Table 38, No. 25), from Temriuk, Kuban’, Russia. This region is just past Crimea on Taman Peninsula.

40 Days of Pysanky 25: Diasporan Ruzha

This is a classic diasporan design that I used to teach a class of middle school and high school level students in Bloomington last week.

40 Days of Pysanky 24: Orchids

This is a replica of a pysanka from Vira Manko's The Ukrainian Folk Pysanka (Table 28, No. 10), from Kirovohrad Province in south-central Ukraine.

40 Days of Pysanky 23: Forty by Forty

This is a replica of a pysanka from Vira Manko's The Ukrainian Folk Pysanka (Table 32, No. 21), from Zhytomyr Province. This design is a further enumeration on the Sorokoklyn or "40 Wedges" division.