This is a blog for 'Easter Eggs' Food Porn community competition.
This is interesting and inexhaustible topic, one even may say it is 'bottomless', endless ... 9 days ago I already presented part of our Easter preparations - but even then in one post I did not show everything. Besides, later I took extra photos. Therefore, Easter eggs - part 2!
I adore those onion-skin patterns! Sadly, you may vary the color in very limited corridor.
The next dish with eggs was the main one. We cooked it all together: my wife, me and my daughter... but most of all, of course, my wife. I wrote in detail about this method in a previous post and I won’t repeat myself much: we wrap eggs with colored threads and boil them, the threads shed and give color to water and eggs - this is not very predictable, so the result is always surprising. This is bad for a guaranteed beautiful result, but good from the point of view of the entertainment process. Below are some photos presenting the outlook we got this year.
The first part was eggs dyed with onion skins. Every year we have fun with Easter, we design a dozen of eggs this way to the likes of our Grandma. How one may not adore with these bizarre, cosmic, absolutely analogous patterns? .. which are obtained by themselves, almost automatically, without any extra effort. It's a must-have, a proven classic technology...
I think it is a well known recipe and it does not even require a signature or explanation. But that was only the beginning of our design join venture. I invite you to follow me down the rabbit hole!
And now, the next part.... it will be completely different.
My daughter's godmother is a wonderful and original artist, a do-it-yourself master, from year to year she instills good taste in us, makes art gifts and surprises us with what wonderful things can be made from ... from everything! from paper, beer cans, scraps of old dresses. Of course, you need to have "golden hands", add a lot of creativity - and sometimes a lot of painting. In the case of Easter eggs, felt-tip pens are added massively.
I will present her egg artwork below, but let me start with these two unusual ones. My daughter made this art, all the ideas were her own, she came up with everything from A to Z. "Geography" subject was what inspired her. The first one repeats the physical map of the Earth, and the second one is stylized like the map of high and low air pressure zones as seen in the textbook ... even if you dont know about this, still the result is... naively delightful.
We did not break these eggs, but will keep them ... in order to look at, smile and be touched in the future.
And now goes the final part. Five eggs pieces of egg-art we received as the Easter present from the Godmother. They all look different, although of course one can see that some tricks and methods are repeated. Part of the dyeing work was entrusted to dyes: onion peel, aniline, hibiscus tea - and the finishing was done with various felt-tip pens, including one that allows you to draw golden and silver lines.
Below I will add to the post a few macro photos of each egg, including close-ups. Stunning!
This spotty brown-violet egg of unusual composite color I momentarily labelled as "cosmic" ... apparently such an association is natural and logical - the author also decorated it with a tailed comet and the planet Saturn on the surface (which is not visible because it is on the opposite side)... for a reason.
Orange one, give me strong associations with 'Jugendstyle' and more precisely, with Wienna Secession -- probably, due to the beautiful way of ornamentation.
And this is where I almost out of the pictures... cause I was so engrossed with the "space egg" that paid far less attention to the rest than they deserve. (But we kept them intact, so I am able to take new photos at any time, with better lighting).
The red one, decorated with traditional Orthodox cross.
Simple pattern and color solution - but so much expression.
Time to climb out of the rabbit hole :) Hope you enjoyed this little Easter art exhibition, and maybe even got inspired with some ideas for the future art ventures. Cheerio!
| location: | St.Petersburg, Russia | April 2023 | natural light |
| camera/lens: | Canon 5D | Sigma 150mm | raw-conv |