Photos: Pysanky - Ukrainian Easter Eggs

[Donkees]

[Frustratedlady]

1. Oh, WOW! Those are gorgeous.

I've painted Easter eggs and can appreciate the beauty and detail of each of those. It is a true art.

I assume they are porcelain. I'd love to buy some.

[Donkees]

3. The designs are drawn on eggs using an intricate melted beeswax technique

[Frustratedlady]

7. What happens if they are around heat from, say, sunlight?

You'd certainly need to have a steady hand. In earlier years, I would have loved to play with it just to see how difficult it would be. Thanks for the photos.

[Donkees]

9. After the final layer of color is added, all the wax is melted and wiped, revealing the design

[CANADIANBEAVER69]

16. we use the oven to heat the wax on final reveal of the eggs

It is so fun and actually quite easy once you get the hang of the tools. I am unable to do such fine work myself but have made a few I was pretty proud of. My husband first egg is amazing and I hate him for it hahaha. He even did some un traditional hockey team logo eggs for a few people. We use real intact eggs and not blown eggs and we have some that are from my Baba (grandmother). Some eggs have broken over the years and they do release a very bad odor because they are rotten on the inside. Some of them rattle a bit with the insides all hardened up too.

[lark]

2. Think this is a Slavic tradition as we saw these in Hungary and Slovenia too.

We were in this area a week before Easter about 5 years ago and there were 8 foot tall painted eggs in the square, forget the name of the city in Slovenia but it was beautiful.

Funny, there was also a statue put up by Russia in the square. They had torn it down but Russia came back and put it up just before they left the USSR and told them it would create an international incident if they took it down again. So they left it up, but put up a new plaque over the old one and renamed it - Patriotic Slovenians fighting against Nazi Imperialists or something like that.

[Frustratedlady]

6. That's a neat response.

I have seen photos of this technique before, but not so many designs. I can't imagine one 8' tall.

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. We usually decorate eggs for Easter, but after seeing these exquisite ones, maybe not this year.

Amazing artwork!

[burrowowl]

5. Kick! Beautiful!

[niyad]

8. Thank you so much for posting these. I had forggotten just how exquisite

they are.

[electric_blue68]

10. I have some that my dad bought, one I bought(?), and the one I made...

50+ yrs ago which was so so. 😄


The others I have have are lovely! 💖

Thanks for posting a whole variety. 👍

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Giant

Vegreville, Alberta, Canada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegreville

[electric_blue68]

21. Very cool! I've read there's lots of Ukrainian-Canadians 👍

[Pepsidog]

12. What patience. Beautiful.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Beautiful

A friend of mine had a couple dozen that she had made herself. They were beautiful. She was packing them in an open box for moving and her big old fat lummox of a cat settled in and broke about five or six of them. I yanked him out of there in a not gentle manner.

She said something about the materials was toxic and had to be careful using them.

[aggiesal]

14. Hey, those look like the ones I made last night ...

sarcasm meter is pretty high.

They look gorgeous!

[littlemissmartypants]

15. Truly lovely. ❤

Two videos about the craft shared by mysteryowl here yesterday...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181651327


And here's my post about a fund raiser raffle where these two eggs were the prize. Unfortunately it ended the 14th of April but here is more information about the craft and the artist, So Jeo LeBlond.

http://www.sojeo.com

She's from Canada and has an Etsy store where she sells her creations. It can be found here...

https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/PysankyBySoJeo?ref=si_shop



Here's the link to my post from this past Monday...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216583252

❤ pants

🌻🇺🇦❤🇺🇦🌻 Slava Ukraini! 🌻🇺🇦❤🇺🇦🌻

[Frustratedlady]

19. I had no idea that was the method for painting these beauties. A ton of work/time goes into them.

Thank you for posting those links.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. Good news...

There's another raffle for a chance to win via donation to World Central Kitchen for this egg by So Jeo LeBlond...





You can donate here...

https://donate.wck.org/fundraiser/3836423

The winner of this raffle will receive a Love In A Mist art egg made by me on a double yolk turkey egg. The egg features soft pale blue flowers in between lacey bands of stars and crosses with a navy blue background. Your egg will come in collectible metal gift tin, includes a wooden egg stand and it has a value of $200 USD, plus you will receive a $100 USD coupon to use in my shop, total value of $300 USD. I will personally cover the shipping with tracking directly to the winner wherever you are located worldwide!

You can earn one ticket for $20 or three tickets for $50 one of two ways:

1) Make a donation here at World Central Kitchen between April 15th-21st, 2022 https://donate.wck.org/pysankybysojeoraffle3. Please email my a snapshot of the receipt to [e-mail] as I am unable to see Anonymous donor info and I need to record your name and email for the draw. I wouldn't want anyone to miss out!

OR

2) Donate to a charity of your choice with proceeds going to Ukraine and email me a snap shot of your receipt with a donation date between April 15th-21st, 2022 to [e-mail].

Please remember to include your NAME, PHONE NUMBER and E-MAIL so that I am able to contact you. The winner will be announced and last Raffle #4 will begin on April 22nd, 2022. Thank you so much and good luck!

#pysankyforukraine #pysanky #saveukrainenow #savingtheworldoneeggatatime #IStandWithUkraine #standwithukraine #SaveUkraine #SlavaUkraini #artforpeace #worldcentralkitchen #wckitchen #chefsforukraine

❤ pants

🌻🇺🇦❤🇺🇦🌻 Slava Ukraini! 🌻🇺🇦❤🇺🇦🌻

[KS Toronado]

18. Unfortunately there are probably fewer of these eggs

being made in Ukraine this year because of Putler.

[littlemissmartypants]

20. Thankfully the art form is also practiced elsewhere.

See my posts upthread. ❤

[smirkymonkey]

22. K&R

These are really beautiful. So pretty to look at!

[Donkees]

23. Step number 1 ...

[Donkees]

24. A Ukrainian legend says that as long as the tradition of pysanky continues to be practiced...

A Ukrainian legend says that as long as the tradition of pysanky continues to be practiced, the world will continue to exist.

Link to tweet

[SharonClark]

25. I started collecting pysanky 30 years ago

and have quite a collection - mostly from Ukraine but also from the Czech Republic. I even took a pysanky class at the art center.

Long story short, I’m in awe of the artists who make these gorgeous eggs.

[Raine]

26. GORGEOUS! 🇺🇦🌻💕🌻 🇺🇦 nt