Artist Creates Intricate Pysanky Eggs With Wax | Art Insider

So what happens to the organic material inside the egg...?

2:45 Ok I’m pretty sure I saw her start with an empty white egg with holes in the ends, and every dye clip showed a *very* lightweight egg bobbing around after being plonked in. How did you guys get mixed up enough to say she emptied the (old, stinky, rotting) egg after all the painting work? 😂 edit: I saw one clip where an egg looked heavy. I guess they’re not that rotten yet to have to empty first. But still, every other clip…

I made quite a few when I was younger, now my eyes are not so good, beautiful Ukrainian art!

She does amazing work

What a stunningly beautiful artistic expression of a culturally important artifact!! I have admired these eggs since I was a kid!! Now that I’m much older, I continue to be in awe of them!! They are very special!!

Too bad it's been ukrainianised and it belongs to Polish traditions before Ukraine

I have no idea about the origins about this particular style of decorating eggs, I just know it's beautiful. Many ancient cultures saw the egg as a symbol for fertility, spring and birth because that's what's happening in the spring. I find it interesting how symbols have different meanings in different cultures. For example an owl usually means wisdom in Greek cultures but death in some Indigenous Native American tribes. So , again this is a beautiful art form and the artists that create these are very talented.

Checked out a book at my local libraryon these kinds of eggs... they're so beautiful and unique

What heat do you use to remove that wax? I use candle but it sometimes leaves a burn streaks and can be very painful as well and risky

Absolutely beautiful Pysanky!!

Ooh I wish I could have those really vivid eggs at home

GUT MORGEN SHAVUA TOV IM ALMOST DONE PAINTING MINE 💗

Hi can you tell me how come blue candle doesn't become black after applying it.. And yellow wax become black?

I would like to buy a better wax pen, what do you suggest?

My Aunt and Uncle make these at Easter . I used to have one of the wax implements

Amazing, fantastic, wonderful...

UKRAINE ART, yes indeed, indeed. It is all well known and it seems that such style is doing a comeback in the form of parametric architecture, an art and science that is extremely ancient. I'll be honest here, art IS history and we must value history as our guidance in our humanity. We can't escape art. We are part of it. We talk, speak, write, draw, order, organize and even think our patterns in life. There is no way we can't escape art.

Breathtakingly beautiful incredible

Ukrainian Eggs...is what we called this art.

It is only since the advent of electric lighting that eggs have been available all year. Electric lights are able to trick chickens into thinking it is summer year round.

Old art ♥ beautiful

Learn how to make these in Catholic School

Amazing patience and artistry. Does the content get replaced to make it stronger? Cause otherwise it just be a very fragile, albeit beautiful, egg shell.

My Baba, mom and aunt used to make them. My mother's side are Ukrainian.

Nevermind, I found the link to her website!

Does anyone know where I could purchase an egg like this?

I remember doing this as a kid. Thank you for the memories.

As a child we made these eggs every Easter. We never emptied them though. We kept them in a cupboard with glass doors and there never seemed to be any smell 🤷‍♀️ the eggs that are decades old feel empty now, I suppose the innards evaporated over time?

Firstly as people have said there is not "ukrainian" is slavic and come for centuries where ukraine (kievan rus) doesn't even exist And this is nothing Try to do "kroshonka".

I learned about ukrainian egg art when i was 9 from my childcare provider and further learned more about it during a school art class event. I still have my supplies from it and love making the eggs. For me it's a form of relaxation and meditation and has helped me many times In the past.

Simply stunning! I wonder if this artwork is where faberge eggs originated from, and people decided to make them out of glass and gems instead of painting an egg? First time I've heard of these eggs, was about an older woman in Russia who nursed a goose back into health while using her eggs to make incredible art pieces! ^^

You have no idea how difficult it is to get even straight lines on a curved egg. I used to do them and I have ones that used to belong to my grandmother. I’m 70 and some of those eggs are older than me.

Wow that is beautiful I would love to try this at some point

Ukrainian? What a BS. It is a Christian orthodox.

Very beautiful.

Katherine Alexander? More like Katherine All-eggs-ander. ... Sorry 😔

Wow. This lady is like a machine.

Father, I crave EGG!

Do the holes get covered/filled in at all afterwards?

I'm Hungarian and Czechoslovakian we made these eggs every year..

What happens to the inside of the egg? Is it still there or emptied in some way? 🤔

Imagine wasting eggs

Wow amazing

is that centing

Im interested to know how they preserve the egg and remove the things that can spoil. Im sure theres more than just draining the liquid egg. Theres also a membrane inside thats organic and can spoil. What do they do to remove this?

i like how people privatise slavic cultural traditions to "one-of-a-kind" country aka ukraine only because of political reasons what's wrong with you people

It looks Ukranian 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦

The video claims the eggs are painted and then drained, but the large egg that was wrapped at the beginning had an obvious hole in the bottom from which it had already been drained. Also, every time she drops the egg into dye she risks it smashing if it's still filled. That seems like a highly unlikely risk someone would take when doing such intricate work on the shell.

Real Realy beautifull

Ugliest thing I've ever seen