Tuesday, April 23, 2013


WOODBURNING & MARKERS DESIGN ON WOODEN EGG

Using a wooden egg, draw design with pencil on the surface.  Heat the woodburning tool and trace all the lines so that they are burned into the wood.  I used permanent markers to color the egg and then varnished it.



COLORED BEANS GLUED TO HOLLOW EGGS

1 comment:

LaReta said...
It was nice meeting you Felicia. Thanks for stopping by Oak Hill. These eggs are beautiful. I homeschool my children and was wondering if you teach any classes? What an art!!! Blessing to you.
LaReta

Ps The tea bag folding is beautiful too.

PISANKI BY FELICIA






PISANKI BY FELICIA





SCRATCHED EGGS....SKROBANKI

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Foster said...
I am always amazed at how beautiful these eggs are. Wow.


INDIAN SEED BEADS GLUED ON HOLLOW EGGS




"Polish, Slovak, Czech, & Ukrainian Eggs"


Sunday, April 7, 2013


PISANKI BY FELICIA




3 comments:

Foster said...
Gorgeous! You are so talented!

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Dexi Love said...
That Was So Beautiful <3 p="">

PISANKI AND WOODBURNED CROSSES




I decided to decorate wooden crosses with similar designs as pisanki eggs.  I drew on the bare wood with pencil first and then proceeded to burn the lines into the crosses using a woodburning tool.  It has different types of points that become heated to a very high temperature and actually burn the lines in the wood.  I colored one of the cross designs with permanent marker and then varnished the crosses to make them permanent.

PISANKA EGG DECORATING


Pisanki are made with melted beeswax that is applied to an egg shell (which has been blown out with a special egg blower).  The first lines on the egg will be the color of the shell, which is then placed in the yellow dye and dried carefully.  The next lines and shapes will be yellow, if you cover the yellow design with melted wax.  Putting the egg shell in orange gives you a new color to work with in wax.  Green may be added before the orange dye.  The final color will be brown, blue, dark green, purple, or black.  Finishing the process includes cleaning off the burned wax by carefully melting it in a candle flame and wiping with a tissue.  A high gloss polyurethane makes the design permanent.  These pisanki are very fragile and must be handled with care.






2 comments:

szania said...
Bardzo ładne pisanki. Pozdrowienia z Polski :)
FTD said...
Dziekuje bardzo!!!

MORE PISANKI BY FELICIA










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Passionate in the Finger Lakes said...
You continue to be an inspiration to me and I am so proud to be a part of your family. "Creation begins as a figment in my imagination and can develop into everlasting beauty." I just made that up as I was thinking of you.

PISANKA EGG DECORATING BY FELICIA

The scratched eggs are called "Skrobanki" and are made by dyeing the eggs first and scratching a design to reveal the white egg shell.  I dye the egg first and then very lightly draw pencil lines where I want to scratch off the dye.  Then I use an sharpened nail or Exacto Knife to scratch the shell very
carefully, since the egg is so fragile.  I don't want to put a hole in the shell.  Sometimes when the white lines don't look clear enough on a regular pisanka, I scratch the white lines and then varnish over the egg to seal it.



The second group of pisanki are Batik art and represent butterfly designs on the egg shells and done with beeswax and dye.  With this method, I draw on the white or brown egg shell, which has been blown out to make it hollow.  I draw lines lightly with pencil, (don't erase mistakes...just don't wax over them).  I apply the melted beeswax by heating the pisak in a candle flame, scooping up some wax and drawing on the egg shell.  Each dye bath is done after the wax, light colors to dark, until the whole egg is dyed and waxed.  Then the wax is removed by touching close to the candle flame and wiping the melted wax with tissue.  Varnishing is the final step, to make the eggs shiny.

For anyone out there who is a Pysanky Artist, I have just discovered a new group of people who work with eggs and make the most impressive pysanky you will ever see.  The group is:
PysankyUSA.com     You can see the eggs made by the artists and even purchase supplies.  Check out their site.

ELMIRA & FINGER LAKES PISANKI


MY PISANKI IN A POLISH REED BASKET

1 comment:

Anonymous said...
Gorgeous work!

PISANKI by Felicia


1 comment:

sanne said...
Omg so cute. its like real art.

xx sanne

Pisanki on drying board

Saturday, February 9, 2013


German Paper Cutting or Scherenschnitte: MORNING GLORIES AND LILLIES

This is a German Style Paper cutting called Scherenschnitte.  The paper is folded in half and then the holes are cut out through both sides at the same time.  This can be done with sharp-pointed scissors or an exacto knife with a self-healing mat beneath the cutting.  When the cutting is unfolded, the sides will be symmetrical with the designs repeated on each side, only reversed.  I placed it in a round mat and added the little symmetrical shapes to the four corners, to set off the design.

SCHERENSCHNITTE (German Paper Cuts): Heart Designs


The heart shape is fun to work with in paper.  First, you choose a piece of paper with the color that you want and fold it in half.  You then draw half of your design with pencil and cut out the negative spaces (holes) with a pair of sharp-pointed scissors.  When you have a design that isn't completely symmetrical, like the boy and girl in the heart, you cut out the heart leaf design first and complete the cutting of the people separately.  Otherwise, you would have two identical people face to face.  When the design is unfolded, the delicate paper cut is glued carefully on the card stock background and matted..
   

1 comment:

Anonymous said...
Hi Felicia,

Your work is really gorgeous and I love the Scherenschnitte a lot (maybe because of the special "bound" I have with Germany).

Ganz ganz schön!!!!

Hartelijke groeten,
Pieter (from Amersfoort, Holland)