Friday Egg: Blue Elephant Dreaming

I chose to show this one for the Friday Egg as a farewell: it sold last weekend at the East Austin Studio Tour. Goodbye Blue Elephant!  

There are other eggs for you to see, so don't despair. Just come by my studio tomorrow, Stop #10 on the East Austin Studio Tour and take a look at designs new and old, chat about eggs and other stuff, have a glass of wine and hang out! 

Saturday, November 23 and Sunday, November 24 from 11 to 6 each day. Hope to see you!

The elephant has pink striped toenails!

Friday Egg: Delft Garden

Revisiting a design this week, somewhat opposite color scheme from a few weeks ago. I think that this one is not as strong, but I don't know that it is a bad thing. Just different. I do wish that I had etched this one to give some more emphasis to the design. The mottled effect of the dye is bothering me as I think it makes the design seem out of focus or blurry.  But then maybe I should just stop comparing the two and give them each a chance to shine.

Happy Friday!

Friday Egg: Tie Dye Experiment

Today's Friday Egg is a batiked goose eggshell reminiscent of tie-dye. I simply dotted different colors of dye on the white eggshell with a q-tip, waxed the egg and then dyed it black. One layer only, but with the different colors of dye peeking through the black, it looks a little more fun than just a plain black and white design. Of course, now that I said that I think I might just try a black and white one because that would be very pretty in a different way!

Happy Friday!