Easter eggs master class

Painting Easter eggs - eight simple ways - I present to your attention ideas for painting Easter eggs from craftswoman Alice Burke

Alice Burke is a freelance mixed media artist | She explores various new materials to use in her works, happily breaks the rules and breaks the patterns accepted in art | She draws inspiration from street art, graffiti, art history and fashion | You can often see her rummaging through a trash can in the hope of finding something unique that can later be used to create a work of art | On the eve of Easter, she took several photos of lessons on decorating Easter eggs

This is what she writes in the preface to her master class: “Who told you that in order to decorate eggs, you need to mess around with dirty hot dyes? It's not like that at all! Watch how I painted a dozen eggs using materials found in my immediate environment.”

Idea No. 1. Take the eggs and color them with bright acrylic paint or food coloring. Then take a stroke corrector pen and draw simple patterns across the entire surface of the shell.

Idea No. 2,3. Use cotton swabs and use them to apply different patterns.

For example, create a pattern like this by dipping a cotton swab into paint and applying thick or translucent strokes.

Or make polka dot eggs using cotton swabs as pokers to apply the design.

Idea No. 4. Bubble wrap is another great material for creating interesting surfaces.

Just take a small piece of this film and spread some paint on it, then roll the egg over it.

Voila, you have an interesting egg with speckles or polka dots.

Idea No. 5. Creating inscriptions with a black or colored marker directly on the shell is perhaps the most easily implemented idea for decorating any surface.

You can write anything from wise sayings and prayers to funny wishes and meaningless doodles.

Idea #6 Colored handwriting and scribbles applied with multi-colored markers or felt-tip pens can also create a very bright and unique pattern on the surface of an Easter souvenir.

Idea No. 7 Well, and finally, a simple gel pen, Alice claims that with the help of this simple tool you can uniquely paint Easter eggs.

Look at the very simple feathers drawn, and what a cute pattern it turned out to be.

DIY Easter eggs

Here another great idea from the same craftswoman. This master class shows an easy way to create unique and colorful Easter eggs - using watercolors. Keep in mind that the pattern applied with such paint is not waterproof and products painted using this technique easily lose the applied pattern at the slightest contact with water. But painting eggs with watercolors is such a fun activity for children that you shouldn’t pay attention to this drawback.

To paint eggs using this technique you will need:

• watercolor paints,
• brushes,
• boiled eggs,
• watercolor pencils.

Step 1. Wet the brush with water, dip it in watercolor paint and apply paint to the entire surface of the souvenir, do not try to achieve uniform coloring, just paint the entire shell.

Step 2. Without waiting for the shell to dry completely, apply bright color spots of the same shade as the background directly onto the damp surface.

Step 3. Take watercolor pencils. The craftswoman writes: If you have never used watercolor pencils (or water-soluble pencils), they are simply wonderful. They are similar to ordinary colored pencils, but after you finish your drawing, you can draw with a wet brush and the image will become blurry and have a special charm, you will achieve the same effect if you draw on a damp surface.

Step 4. Alice used her watercolor pencils and worked on a wet surface, this is how she talks about her feelings: “When you draw on a wet shell, you feel like the pencil literally melts and bright and at the same time soft lines of the details of the drawing are born under it. »

Step 5. Add colored doodles all over the surface and dampen them.

Step 6. Let the painted items dry.

Just admire how beautiful the result is; if you want to consolidate the result, after drying completely, spray the shell with hairspray, and then cover it with a thin layer of acrylic varnish.

Decorate your gifts with inspiration, give with pleasure!

Translation by Oksana Korshunova especially for the site: Good IDEA

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In addition to the traditional Easter cake, the symbols of the Easter table are, of course, eggs painted for the holiday. You can decorate Easter eggs in an original way using simple painting techniques that are accessible not only to adults, but also to children. We are happy to share the secrets of our craft with our readers.

In order to paint Easter eggs, it is not at all necessary to be a master of a brush. In addition to traditional painting with an artistic brush, there are simpler techniques, some of which do not require this tool at all. Let's look at the most popular of them.

Bonded painting

To paint Easter eggs using this technique you will need:

• cotton swabs (pokes);
• acrylic paints;
• brushes;
• sponge;
• cotton pads;
• sunflower oil or furniture varnish.

Progress:

1. Boil an egg hard-boiled, dry and cool it. If you want to make a real Easter souvenir, carefully remove the contents of the raw egg through small holes in the bottom and top and paint the dried shell.

2. Using a foam sponge, cover the entire surface of the egg with white acrylic paint. Dry for a few minutes. If the coating is not thick enough, apply another layer.

3. Start painting the Easter egg. We suggest you decorate the shell with bunches of rowan berries. Dip a poke (cotton swab) into red paint and, applying it with perpendicular movements to the shell, draw 10-15 large berries forming a bunch.

4. The second element of our Easter egg painting will be rowan leaves. First, using a cotton swab, draw lines with green paint - the bases of the leaves. To enliven the painting, apply a more saturated color stroke with a thin brush to each green line.

5. Yellow strokes made on the leaves with a thin brush will further enliven the painting and make it more voluminous.

6. Draw highlights on the berries and leaves by applying a few white strokes using a brush or cotton swab.

7. To create contrast, add a few black dots to the base of the berries.

8. After the painting on the Easter egg has dried, coat it with furniture varnish. A boiled egg can be treated with vegetable oil using a cotton pad to make it shine.

Easter egg painting with wax

Easter eggs painted with wax are called pysanky. This technique is traditionally popular in Ukraine and allows you to create both simple souvenirs and genuine artistic masterpieces.

To paint eggs using wax technique you will need:

• a raw egg;
• pisachok - a device for applying hot wax to the shell. You can make your own pisachok by twisting a small piece of foil into a funnel and securing it to a wooden stick. Wax is placed in foil, heated over a flame to a liquid state and applied to the shell through a hole in the funnel;
• candle;
• vinegar;
• cotton pads.

Progress:

1. From a raw egg at room temperature (not cold!) Remove the contents through small holes at the bottom and top. Wipe the shell with a cotton pad soaked in vinegar.

2. Prepare egg dye - it can be natural or artificial dye.

4. Immerse the scribbler in the melted wax and heat the contents of the funnel over the flame again.

5. Apply the wax design by rotating the egg, but without moving the scribbler.

6. After the wax has hardened, dip the egg into the dye and let the paint dry.

7. While heating the wax painting over a candle flame, gradually remove the wax trace from the surface of the shell with a woolen cloth. The areas where the wax was applied will remain unpainted, and you will have a light design on a colored background.

Working with a pissy

The traditional color of Easter eggs is red

The Easter egg is a model of the world, so eggs are often painted with belts
(sky, earth and underworld) and draw animals and plants on them

The painting includes birds, flowers and patterns with waves.

Variety of colors and styles

This is what the Lusatian wax painting of Easter eggs looks like

Easter egg painting with engraving

Easter eggs painted using this original technique are called “shkryabanks”. To create a painting-engraving you will need:

• chicken, duck or ostrich egg, cleared of contents;
• a sharp and thin tool for engraving, for example, a stationery knife;
• paint for Easter eggs.

Progress:

1. Dye the eggs in your chosen color using natural or artificial dye.

2. Dry the shell for 24 hours so that the dye hardens well.

3. Using a sharp tool, “scrape” the selected ornament onto the eggshell (you can use a stencil).

Modern scrap banks

Even a simple scraper can be performed masterfully

Ornaments for painting eggs

Browse our selection of Easter egg designs to see if one of them will inspire you to experiment.

A simple pattern for stanchion painting and painting with a traditional solstice

Traditional painting

Ornament "Intercessor"

By the way, you can decorate not only ordinary chicken eggs, but also wooden models - they definitely won’t crack, and a particularly beautiful design can be preserved for years.

If your family has a tradition of exchanging Easter gifts, make beaded Easter eggs.

An easy and effective way to decorate Easter eggs. The kids will definitely love it!

For all methods, food coloring is used as a basis.

1. Decorate Easter eggs with double-sided thin tape or adhesive tape

Cut the duct tape into strips or squares and wrap the hard-boiled eggs. And take turns lowering them into different colors of paint, removing some stripes. And you will get these striped whales. There are a ton of options for how to apply stripes—spotted squares, vertical stripes, like on a watermelon, checkered patterns, or abstract transverse stripes.

Here, for decoration, we will need corrugated paper, which we apply with glue to the already prepared and painted eggs. Add a couple of stickers with a ladybug or butterflies and you get a very spring version of Easter eggs.

3. Paint Easter eggs with a marker

A monochrome version with white unpainted eggs would look great here. Children's flights of imagination cannot be stopped, so we give them markers and colored eggs and get little works of art.

You can buy such stamps at a decor store or anything for needlework, and if you are fans of Kinder, you often come across funny stamps there. Tip: Use a pen to carefully fill in any lines you may have missed.

5. Decoupage fabric for Easter eggs

We cut any loose fabric into small squares, soak it in decoupage glue (or dilute regular PVA 50/50 water-glue) and make beautiful multi-colored eggs. In fact, these are the papier-mâchés that we all made as children, only in this case from fabric.

6. Decorate Easter eggs with pompoms

Just glue the pom poms onto the egg. Hot glue and a glue gun will work best, but PVA will work too.

We place a tiny feather on the already painted egg and carefully glue it using decoupage glue and a small brush. These are the eggs with the feather of the firebird.

In this case, it is better to decorate an empty, blown egg.

Tip: How to blow out an egg. Take a raw egg, previously washed in warm water. And a knife or any other sharp object to “drill” a small hole in the shell. Do not press too hard on the egg - the shell may crack. We insert a syringe with a needle into the hole, turn the egg with the hole down and begin to slowly blow air into the syringe. To make the contents come out faster, you can lubricate the surface of the egg with fat or wax. Let's check if the egg is really empty by shaking it in your hand. If there is something left inside the egg, you will feel it. Then, using a syringe, rinse the egg with water, injecting and blowing water.

After blowing the egg, lower the pin into the hole with the thread attached to it. Apply white glue around the edge of the hole, then carefully wrap the thread around it. Continue adding glue and wrapping the thread until the egg is closed.

9. Marble Easter eggs

Paint the egg the desired shade. Then, in a shallow bowl of water, add 1 teaspoon white vinegar and enough food coloring to create a darker shade than your first coloring (15 to 20 drops). Add 1 tbsp. olive oil and stir with a fork to create swirls and drips. Roll the egg over the paint until you see marbling. Dry with a paper towel.

10. Glittery Easter eggs

Using a brush, apply an even layer of glue to the egg. Roll the egg in the dry glitter until it is completely covered. Tip: For a crisp finish, first paint the egg the same color as the glitter. You can also use glitter glue (at any office supply store) and make beautiful patterns and inscriptions on painted eggs.

11. Textured Easter eggs or “dinosaur eggs”

Wrap the egg in a fishnet stocking or lace fabric. Using a sponge with acrylic paint, blot the bottom of the egg. But it's easy to paint with a large dry brush. Let dry and remove the fabric. Now your egg looks almost like a dinosaur egg! Quail eggs are perfect for this theme - they already look like dinosaur eggs.

12. Paint Easter eggs with acrylics

This will probably be children's favorite decor option. Here you can draw anything you want - your favorite cartoon characters, Easter bunnies, etc. Advice: it is better to do the entire procedure with acrylic in clothes that you don’t mind; it actually doesn’t wash off after it dries.

13. Decorate Easter eggs using paper

Carefully cut out different geometric shapes from the paper, apply them to the eggs coated with glue and once again apply decoupage glue on top.

14. Easter egg chicken

Draw a chicken on the yellow egg with a marker, and use decorative feathers to make a tail. We fix it with silicone glue.

Wrap the egg with several ordinary thin hair bands or food rubber bands, or alternatively, you have rubber bands for bracelets at home, they stretch well. Then paint the egg and let it dry completely before removing the elastic. Tip: If you blow the egg, do it after removing the rubber bands.

16. Paint Easter eggs using foil

Drop 10 to 15 tiny balls of foil into a paper cup. Spray with paint (you can use one or more colors). Place the egg in a cup and cover the top with foil. And Shake! SHAKE SHAKE! Take out the egg, look how beautiful it turned out.

Place the coffee filter on a sheet of foil. Add drops of dye or paint splatters to your coffee filter. Place the egg on top and wrap it in foil. Leave for 10-30 minutes, unwrap and let dry. Ta-dam, you have an amazing Easter egg.

17. Decorate Easter eggs with nail polish

This option will delight any girl. Well, of course - my mother allowed me to take my own polishes. Use orange nail polish to apply the stains. Let dry. Using black polish, paint a border around the edges of the stains. There are an incredible number of varnish design options.

18. Easter bunnies made from Easter eggs

We cut out the ears for these Easter bunnies from thick paper or cardboard, paint them to match the color of the egg and glue them to the egg with silicone glue. Draw eyes, nose and mouth with a marker. Tip: Mustaches can be made from threads. This will make your bunnies even cuter.

19. Draw a galaxy on Easter eggs

For this option we use acrylic paints. Paint the egg black. Then apply blue, purple and pink paint with a sponge. Let the layers dry and splatter white paint onto the surface - a stiff brush or toothbrush will do the job. Tip: Make sure to cover all surfaces around you with plastic wrap or cellophane so that splashes don't make a mess.

20. Multi-colored Easter eggs

the simplest, but at the same time the brightest option. Take turns dipping the edges of the egg into different food colors and get original and festive Easter eggs

10 unusual ways to decorate Easter eggs April 27th, 2013

Treat yourself and your loved ones with unusual and bright Easter eggs. Thanks to your imagination and skill, ordinary eggs can turn into real works of art.

In addition to the previous stories and 9 natural dyes for Easter eggs, today we will tell you about alternative ways to decorate Easter eggs.

Eggs decorated with beads look very elegant. You need to take hard-boiled eggs and thoroughly bathe them in melted paraffin. Paraffin (fragments or remains of candles) is melted in a wide metal container (you can use any tin can) on the stove. The egg begins to decorate when it is completely covered in paraffin and has cooled enough so that the paraffin does not stick to your hands.

First, the desired pattern is applied to the paraffin layer with a thin needle. Using tweezers, take one bead of the desired color, heat each one on a candle flame for no more than 1-2 seconds and glue it onto a paraffin egg. When it comes into contact with heated beads, the paraffin melts and firmly glues the beads. In this way you can create a real work of art.

2. Eggs decorated with cereal

To decorate Easter eggs, you can use various cereals (rice, lentils, millet, corn grits, black peppercorns, etc.), and small pasta. Coat hard-boiled eggs with paste and place cereal on them. Cereals can be laid in various patterns. How to prepare paste? For 1 glass of water, add 1 heaped teaspoon of starch. Pour starch diluted in cold water into boiling water in a thin stream (dilute the starch in a small amount of cold water so that there are no lumps), boil the mixture for 1-2 minutes, cool. The paste is ready.

3. Eggs decorated with lace, bows, beads, paper decorations, etc.

Painted eggs can be decorated with braid, bows, lace, beads, buttons and other sewing accessories, gluing the decorations using PVA glue or paste.

4. Easter eggs painted with felt-tip pen, marker, wax crayons, paints

Already colored plain eggs can be painted

This will melt the crayons and create beautiful patterns. When painting an egg, place it on a stand, and after finishing the work, let it dry for an hour.

An openwork pattern is applied to boiled, dark-colored eggs with a sharp object: a knife, an awl, scissors, or a thick needle. But before you scratch out the pattern, you need to apply it to the egg with a pencil. A lighter scratched pattern on dark eggs looks very elegant.

To decorate Easter eggs using the decoupage technique, you can take elegant napkins with a bright spring pattern. The pictures you like are cut out and carefully glued with PVA glue (for safety, you can use egg white as glue) onto the surface of the boiled egg, and coated with glue on top again. The decorated egg is dried.

7. Glitter

Boiled eggs are coated with glue or paste or egg white, sprinkled with small multi-colored glitter, and allowed to dry. The top is once again coated with an adhesive substance (glue, paste, protein). If you apply glue not to the entire surface of the white egg, but in separate dots, circles, contours and sprinkle it with glitter, then the glitter will stick only to the smeared areas and you will get a white egg with a shiny pattern.

Another way. Cut out circles, flowers, and any other shapes from double-sided tape. Glue them to the egg. Remove the protective layer of paper. Sprinkle eggs with glitter. They will stick to the sticky areas and create a shiny pattern on the smooth egg.

8. Simply wrap in colorful foil

A very simple way to make a gold or silver Easter egg. Wrap the boiled eggs tightly in thin, multi-colored foil, which can be purchased at any craft store.

Needlewomen can crochet Easter eggs using multi-colored threads. You can tie it only with simple columns, or you can use unusual patterns.

10. Cover with fabric

1.Easter eggs can be decorated by covering them with colorful scraps of fabric. To do this, use rectangular variegated shreds, which are cut into thin strips on opposite sides so that the fabric fits tightly around the uneven surface of the egg. To glue the fabric, the surface of the egg is completely coated with glue.

2.Another way to decorate Easter eggs using scraps.

Cut the shreds into thin strips. Lubricate the egg with glue. Gradually pressing the strip of fabric to the surface of the egg (you need to start from the blunt end of the egg), we wrap it completely. A strip of fabric can be folded to create a more textured surface. Using stripes of different colors, you can create very unusual outfits for Easter eggs.

Easter is already approaching, and therefore it’s time to think about such an interesting and beloved activity by many as Easter egg painting. The latter is not just another hobby for needlewomen, but an entire tradition, the history of which goes back to ancient times. As you know, many peoples and even individual regions within the borders of one country have their own rules and customs of painting, using original designs and patterns. Accordingly, craftsmen are accustomed to distinguishing between several types of decorated Easter eggs, namely:

— Easter eggs– raw eggs, painted with beeswax or paints,

— Krashanki– hard-boiled eggs, painted in one shade without patterns,

— specks– multi-colored eggs with a single-color background and many multi-colored dots (speckles, spots or stripes) applied with melted wax,

— rags– Easter eggs, the main pattern of which is scratched onto their surface using any sharp object. As a rule, they have a monochromatic background obtained through the use of natural dye (piece ones are smeared and do not allow you to create neat designs),

— little ones– beautiful eggs, decorated with any invented patterns, applied with acrylic and other types of paints.

Painting Easter eggs with hot wax

One of the most popular is painting them with hot wax, which is both a fascinating and concentration-requiring activity. In order to draw complex patterns on an egg, craftswomen use:

• wax crayons (sold in office supply stores) or melted paraffin candles, tinted with food coloring
• small metal containers (deep bottle caps or old tablespoons will do for the first time)
• copper wire or needle (crochet hook)
• dyes for eggs (natural or food)

Progress:

1. The first thing you need to do is paint the selected egg in any monotonous color. Both food coloring and onion skins will work here. The main thing is that the shell acquires a rich color, which will subsequently become the background for the picture.

2. After the egg is completely dry, you should start coloring it. To do this, you need to first melt the colored crayons (each separately), placing them in small containers placed above the flame. The latter can be fire from a tablet candle located on the desktop. In this case, it is important that the fire heats the wax all the time while the design is being applied, but does not bring it to a boil.

3. After all the necessary preparations, you can now begin to directly apply intricate patterns. On a needle or wire used as a painting brush, take a small amount of wax and draw a line or make a dot on the shell. Subsequently, it should be dipped in wax after applying each stroke.

If the egg will be painted in only one color, after applying all the necessary patterns, it must be wiped with a soft cloth, which will remove minor errors. Then grease the shell with sunflower oil or fat, which gives it shine.

If you plan to apply patterns of different shades, you must first apply strokes of the same color, wait for them to dry completely, and only then begin creating patterns of the next shade.

Perhaps, after reading all this, not everyone will understand how to act, and therefore below we present to you a master class on painting eggs with hot wax, after viewing which everything will finally become clear:

As you can see here, the craftswoman uses wax of several shades, which makes her Easter eggs look beautiful and festive, but this does not mean that monochromatic patterns are inferior to multi-colored ones:

It is clear that beginners simply cannot know all the possible options for painting eggs with molten wax. And to begin with, you can use ready-made templates, the number of which is very huge. For example, these could be the following drawings:

However, you can decorate eggs using this technique without pre-coloring them. In this case they might look like this:

No matter how beautiful the Easter eggs described above are, hot wax is not the only thing that can be used to decorate eggs. Alternatively, they can be:

- wrap it in an old colorful tie and dip it in vinegar for a few minutes,

This is what the result will be:

- paint the shell with a permanent marker,

- wrap eggs in lace and dip in food coloring,

- Cover the eggs with confectionery sprinkles.

The methods for decorating Easter eggs do not end there. They can also be wrapped with ribbons, placed in openwork nets (specially crocheted), painted with ordinary paints, decorated with leaves of plants and any other way that comes to mind. The main thing to remember is that bold experiments with the use of toxic substances are best carried out on blown eggs that no one will eat.

But it is preferable to color hard-boiled eggs with natural dyes, which include not only onion peels, but also pomegranate juice, boiled spinach leaves, strong coffee or tea, red cabbage leaves and many other products.