Ukranian Egg Painting

Avalyn overseeing Murray's Egg Painting


Two Egg Painters at Work
Final Product of the Beginners
Professionally Painted Eggs
Another first that we have experienced since we retired is having a lesson in Ukranian Egg painting. Our friend Avalyn has been painting eggs since she was a young girl, and her eggs are pretty famous around here, and some of her decorated eggs are in the White House and the Clinton Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas (courtesy Hillary Clinton). She is invited to teach at North Dakota schools, and took Murray & I under her wing for a lesson. The painted eggs are also known as Pysanka. While the term can often be used to describe any type of decorated egg, it specifically refers to an egg created by the written-wax batik method. We used raw chook eggs which we painted with hot wax using a heated stylus. Once painted and varnished, the eggs are punctured, drained and washed out then dried. Not sure how we will go when we declare them at customs…