Friday Egg: Moonlight Garden

Happy Friday! A lovely blue and white etched egg today for Friday. I really like the way this one turned out, with a really deep etch and lovely cobalt blue background. 

I just finished up a workshop with Ginger and Sarah, working on teaching beginning Pysanka with Sarah and on etching with Ginger. We had a great day: come join us next time!

REMINDER: Last Chance to Register for my Ornament Workshops this weekend

REMINDER! LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR THE FALL WORKSHOPS!

This fall workshop will concentrate on teaching you how to create your own beautiful heirloom-quality Pysanky eggshell ornaments using traditional methods of waxing and dyeing. I will have the usual red and green or blue and white on hand, but feel free to create the ornament that suits your personal holiday preference with my large selection of aniline dyes. You will leave the workshop with at least one completed eggshell ornament with ornament hanger finding, but most likely you will have time to complete two eggs. I will supply all beeswax, dyes, tools and blown eggs to work on in class. Blown chicken eggs will be available for $2 each if you want to purchase additional eggs for future use.

We will meet at my central East Austin home studio with easy access from I-35 and 183.

If a class doesn't "make", I will give you the option of taking the other scheduled workshop or I will refund your money.
We will be working with carbon-darkened beeswax and aniline dyes, both of which stain, so please wear art clothes or bring a smock/apron.

Ornament Workshop #1
Friday, October 25th
9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
$70

Ornament Workshop #2
Saturday, October 26th
1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
$70


To register for a class you may reserve your spot by paying the tuition through Paypal. You may make a payment to katydavidart@gmail.com. You may also contact me directly to pay with a credit card at (512) 965-7061 or katydavidart@gmail.com. If you want to pay by check, just give me a call for details. If you have any questions, please call or email me.


Looking forward to seeing you!

Katy

Friday Egg: Periwinkle Butterfly

Happy Friday! Today is a cute little chicken egg in one of my favorite color combinations. I love purple and green together. Combined with one of my favorite design motifs and it was a fun egg to make!

I started with a white chicken egg for the base lines, then dipped quickly in Key Lime for the lighter green and then a longer dip in Key Lime for the deeper green. The last color was UGS Purple, but a quick dip so it looks more periwinkle here.

I hope you enjoy it.

Friday Egg: Irrigation Study

Happy Friday! We did a lot of traveling this summer, and I was looking out the windows of several airplanes. I've always loved to look at landscapes this way. The distance simplifies shapes and flattens everything out and turns it into a two-dimensional graphic. This is a study of the crop irrigation patterns you see on the ground from an airplaine. It's not perfect but I feel like there are design ideas here that I would like to continue to pursue.

I hope you enjoy it.

Friday Egg: Star Flowers

Happy Friday! I've been busy with some of the other areas in my life for the past few weeks, with an end-of-summer weekend getaway, school starting for my little, and other things that get in the way of sitting down and working on eggs. But I have had some ideas percolating and will be posting them as I get to them.

Today is a floral hybrid, some of my star flowers combined with modern shapes in bright summer floral colors. I hope you like it!

National Geographic: Oldest Globe of New World Carved on Ostrich Egg!

Used with permission of The Portolan, copyright Washington Map Society

I would love to see this ostrich egg globe in person one day!

For more information about it, click here!

Friday Egg: Summer Sunset Persian Flowers

Happy Friday, everyone! Hot summer day colors to me are reds, oranges and yellows. Today is an especially hot summer day here in Texas (104 degrees Fahrenheit!) and in honor of that, I offer a basket of flowers in summer sunset colors inspired by the colors and stylized shapes of Persian carpet florals. I started with a goose egg dyed with Goldenrod, waxed the outlines and then washed the dye off with Ivory dish soap. I then dyed the egg with Asparagus: a quick dip makes a light green with a gray cast that complements the flower colors. The flowers are made of Carrot, Scarlet and Dark Red dyes.