Artist Creates Intricate Pysanky Eggs With Wax | Art Insider

[@midnightgaxelle]

im honored to be a part of my boyfriends ukrainian easter traditions :) their eggs are like heirlooms and they have so many storage containers and all of them are full of the preserved eggs! pappy lets me go through them sometimes and hes been trying to help me understand the colors and layering so i can join 😅

[@JP-br4mx]

Oh wow…. So interesting…..

[@redacted665]

I’m happy you’re willing to learn! I’m not Ukrainian myself,nor do I know anyone who’s from Ukraine,but i would love to learn how to make these. They’re absolutely stunning.

[@lorettascott5477]

Awe thanks for sharing this is so beautiful 😍 💗 💖 💕

[@Ldawg42069]

@@old-schematic Everything originates from somewhere, there are definitely differences between ukrainian eggs and russian. Thank you for trying to invalidate Ukraine by calling it a “joke of a country” though ;)

[@haidenhill6358]

All hail mother russia

[@nisa3612]

It's so similar to Batik making from Indonesia, but instead on fabric it uses egg shell. So pretty!

[@TheJelleviA]

The process and tools seem similar with Indonesian batik, and that makes me feel closer to them all of a sudden. I don't really care who's first or who's later, but it poses a possibility that we share close or similar ancestry and that we're all connected despite country borders

[@plantedlife]

I was just about to mention batik too!

[@lorettascott5477]

🥰🙏❤

[@tundevirag755]

Or these arts developed independently. There are not so many different ways to paint intricate patterns after all.

[@victoriajonesang7728]

I burn my finger once making batik

[@labaccident2010]

My mom, my sisters, and I used to make pysanky every year. I miss it. We had a friend with chickens, and our favorite eggs for pysanky were the green eggs.

[@terrykobleck6529]

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.

[@lisamelroy2855]

She is incredibly talented. These designs are beautiful!

[@gz625]

Not she is not. Even monkey can so this kind of "art" 🤭

[@jaxcinbehrens8742]

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.

[@2Hitoshi0]

The oldest Easter eggs come from Mesopotamia. In Poland as early as the 5th century, from the Piast period. They appeared in Ukraine a little later, so the statement that other Slavic peoples took over this tradition from them is incorrect.

[@pr4360]

It's the Ukraine-mania

[@nunyabiznes33]

@@pr4360 Are you criticizing Ukraine? Reeeee! 🤣

[@StonedtotheBones13]

I assumed Easter eggs and pysanky eggs are different tbh. When you get down to like mesopotamia tho, I wonder if you could even really compare that art to modern traditions. Like animals or plants, it seems to me it's evolved into its own thing.

[@MsSteelphoenix]

I believe that they are speaking specifically about the pysanky decorations, not the Easter Egg tradition; as you say, eggs have been associated with Easter and the coming of spring for a very long time.

[@plotoyadnaya_rossiyanka]

You’re right. This tradition has pagan pan-slavic roots and it existed long before Kievan Rus (and Russian & Ukrainian nations), so it is wrong to assume that it belongs to or was taken from some specific nation, especially if this nation didn’t exist at the time. I’m tired of this obsession with Ukraine and pro-Ukrainian propaganda, there’s no need to alter or make up information to support them or to tell the world about their traditions.

[@darinakalinova2180]

In Czech republic it's done as well and Slovak and Poland. Nothing unusual in Slavic culture.

[@susanfarley1332]

My hand shakes too much to do a craft like that justice. Wow? Using that heat gun is genius. Beautiful video. Gorgeous eggs!

[@MarianneMalyj]

So do it anyways it gives it character!!

[@soniatriana9091]

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!!

[@micahthomas9521]

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.

[@Numba003]

Oh wow! A great deal of time and delicate, meticulous effort must have to go into each one of these. Thank you for the video! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)

[@mollylollipops]

She does amazing work

[@helenakhudyna2360]

Thank you for sharing this! Greetings from Ukraine!

[@robertballuumm730]

Absolutely exquisite work. I'm sure the egg she started with had already been blown though.

[@mydogeatspuke]

You can see the hole in the bottom when she first unwraps it. Plus if she had been dropped a full egg into that cup it would have smashed.

[@michellebyrom6551]

A friend of mine uses a dremel to draw designs onto eggs. She blows them first to avoid wasting her work. There's enough risk in the process without adding in blowing them after.

[@mydogeatspuke]

@@michellebyrom6551 dremels don't really draw onto things so much as file into things, which is even more risky than painting because you're weakening the shell by removing layers of it.

[@robertballuumm730]

@@michellebyrom6551 Indeed 🙏

[@alzenavashti]

It's like Indonesian Batik but on egg. Literally egg 😲 Really nice art!! The details are amazing, I mean look at all of that pattern! It's definitely a complex art 🔥🔥

[@jcortese3300]

I first saw these in the late 70s (I think) on a National Geographic magazine cover. Blew my mind. They still do.

[@terrykobleck6529]

Everyone who does pysanky has that National Geographic cover. It’s such an inspiration.

[@jennylawson1980]

Breathtakingly beautiful incredible

[@yiyou4661]

These are amayzing love the designs of the eggs that where in the video

[@mydogeatspuke]

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.

[@Dogpool]

I was wincing at the egg dropping as well. Another indication That the shell is empty

[@alex-7777]

People do it both ways. My family leaves them full, so we lower the egg into the dye on a spoon. She blew the the egg out first, so they float in the dye

[@mydogeatspuke]

@@alex-7777 yes I'm aware, that's why I said pretty much all of the things you just repeated lmao

[@YayaValder]

I've done that before when I was younger. So satisfying to remove the wax.

[@nightshadekelly]

So beautiful. Iv been fascinated with these since I was a little kid when we watched a reading rainbow episode about them in art class in school

[@museme6945]

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

[@TheCraftyFamily]

Pretty awesome! I bet she has a lot of requests around Easter! 💕🧡💛💚💙💜

[@sdb9884]

We did this in school when I lived in Europe. Nothing as spectacular as this artist, but we were kids. I feel inspired to try it again now!

[@mojamamonja1897]

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.

[@micahthomas9521]

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

[@dogmom2023]

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

[@Smile936]

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…

[@TheLalawitch]

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

[@archeewaters]

so very pretty

[@vikusfikus4390]

Art and ancient traditions are a powerful mix 💙💛

[@yessumify]

The music is so relaxing. What a wonderful video

[@esthermeyerhoff4113]

I remember my class making these in gr. 5 or 6. Mix of art class and social studies. It was so fun. My parents still have the egg made.

[@yunagaming28]

So how steady do you want your hands to be? Her: Yes

[@StonedtotheBones13]

I read a book about these when I was young. I always wanted to try, but wax crayons don't work as well as her tool 😅

[@Nembula]

When my children were small I learned to do Pasanki. Not as beautiful as these. But my children and I enjoyed it.

[@MarianneMalyj]

Been doing this since I was a kid it is so relaxing and fun I usually do at least 3 or 4 different kinds. Its all about having fun just be careful go slow and relax!!

[@rosenia5409]

Shadow of Destiny anyone? :) this was really cool to know!!

[@Goadenhomestead]

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

[@imeldapalapal3478]

Beautiful intricate designs 🥰💖

[@empresslugia97]

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

[@kathopler2827]

Lovely & I just can’t get enough of very old traditions that show mastery over very difficult Persuits . First saw these thru the Russian churches & families I knew in nearby Ny Neighborhoods 1960s /70s .so nice to see beautiful art & it’s techniques handed down & still practiced & preserved despite the foolishness of Governments ✌️PEACE brothers & sisters

[@ТаняПриймич-и6с]

You saw them in orthodox church not Russian. Calling pysankas eggs russian is also a part of cultural appropriation of Russia against Ukraine. Problem isn't in government, russians have not dealt with their imperialism.

[@plotoyadnaya_rossiyanka]

@@ТаняПриймич-и6с tell me about “cultural appropriation” when you guys are now saying that even Kievan cutlet (invented by Russian guy in Saint-Petersburg) was appropriated from you. Isn’t this the same crap you’re judging us for? Don’t get me wrong, I’m against war, cultural appropriation, imperialism and yada yada, but I’ll disapprove of that no matter who does it, and you are no exception to the rule, it would be a pure hypocrisy otherwise. You probably don’t understand what imperialism actually means. In the context of relationships of Russia and Ukraine this word can be applied to Russian invasion on/occupation of Ukrainian territories, and also to the erasing borders between Russian and Ukrainian nations (like saying we’re the same nation and should be united). But is it an imperialism or a cultural appropriation to call traditions that your nation had for centuries your own? How can you tell the difference between cultural appropriation and acculturation or a fusion of cultures that gave birth to every culture you know today? Also, about the pysanki… This tradition has pagan pan-slavic origins and has appeared long before the Kievan Rus and before any Slavic nation has fully formed, so it doesn’t belong to any specific nation. No one in Russia claims that it’s an exclusively Russian tradition, but you guys do. Some guy who edited Wikipedia page about pysanki in 2022 has deleted all the mentions of Russia and added a word “Ukraine” in every article, isn’t that a pure propagandistic manipulation? Who’s appropriating whose culture then?

[@lorettascott5477]

How beautiful 😍 ❤ very talented 🎨 talented artists. I wish I was this talented. Thank you for sharing 🙏

[@allesandradrago7111]

This is so creative and beautiful

[@Geeksmithing]

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

[@MrKayoed]

She made a career out of child hood memories of coloring eggs.

[@patricianieto4396]

Beautiful!!!

[@jennglow4647]

Very pretty 😀

[@kristinfrazee2097]

stunning!!!

[@JJLewis-so1iq]

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous

[@minagelina]

We need to do handicrafts for homeschool. Maybe we will try this.

[@Hirvalanimi_132]

Unbelievable😍😍👍👍👍👍🤩🤩🤩 I love this video👌👌👌

[@jenniferwong4530]

Absolutely beautiful Pysanky!!

[@soxpeewee]

Beautiful

[@rebeccajenkins1553]

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

[@kummer45]

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.

[@Baracatbrown]

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

[@kaytlinjustis5643]

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! ^^

[@robinnicole4466]

I had the same thought but I believe faberge is French and was made for royalty 😊

[@shatyrajones494]

My Polish high school teacher use to invite me to celebrate Easter with her family and we would paint eggs together like the one's in the video

[@Bettinasisrg]

Incredible!

[@KaitlinLuksa]

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?

[@suesmith9665]

Old art ♥ beautiful

[@josephcordova8553]

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

[@annafilipinska3780]

Amazing, fantastic, wonderful...

[@marianamuslera3213]

Real Realy beautifull

[@Dogpool]

Wow. This lady is like a machine.

[@ChonseeTV]

What tool is she using to color the Eggs?

[@Ev-ko]

It's called 'pysachok' (a drawing/painting/writing tool), as well as 'pysanka' this word derives from a verb 'pysaty' (draw,paint,write). Greetings from Ukraine, we have an Independence Day today, on August 24 💙💛. The war will end, I hope by Easter and we will invite all our friends from around the globe to come and learn our culture, traditions and folk art techniques♥️

[@Ev-ko]

And in the video it's called 'kistka' probably a dialect that means 'a bone'

[@talayoki6989]

We dye eggs with onion shells and flowers. Sometimes with bee's wax too but it takes more effort.

[@Mr_blue_7777]

Amazing 😍👏

[@DelilahUnknown]

my friend gave me these and I tried making my own. he told me you steal an egg and leave one at a house so no one has matching eggs lol.

[@diahalukita2871]

Out of curiosity... Do you use raw egg or boiled egg for this art? Do you use any kind of preservatif? What would happen if the egg goes bad?

[@capucineenfleur]

that is a documentary not the artist himself.

[@diahalukita2871]

I know.. what I meant is if you wanna make this egg art, do you use raw egg or boiled egg? Coz it wasn't shown in the documentary 😁

[@majav7511]

In Poland we use boiled eggs and I think everyone using boiled eggs for pisanki

[@chanterelle483]

It's not the whole egg, just a preserved eggshell.

[@diahalukita2871]

@@chanterelle483 how to preserve the egg?

[@alexandraframe6493]

Very beautiful.

[@dyscea]

My ten cups of coffee this morning says, “Nope.”

[@bigdawgz4530]

Pysanky eggs are a wonderful tradition within the Orthodox Christian Church ☦. For us, these beautiful eggs are a symbol of rebirth & a representation of the Resurrection of Christ.

[@Fairy_Ukraine]

Oh, finally the World meets our traditions and heritage. The video is absolutely stunning. More Ukrainian content please 🇺🇦

[@ミカ-m9p]

Ur traditions are beautiful and wonderful 🙏

[@larapedan6541]

It's not Ukrainian tradition but SLAVIC! You can't read?

[@dfgggfg]

The most ukrainian tradition - being cannon fodder)

[@jelenad6367]

@@dfgggfg it's just that it's popular nowadays to say everything is ukrainian, when in fact it's a promotion and propaganda thing. No one can point a finger at one nation and say "this tradition is exclusively theirs". At least not a serious ethnologist. Well, under influence of politics, maybe in future they also will start to sound less objective.

[@dfgggfg]

@@jelenad6367 yes, you're perfectly right. But this massive promotion of "ukrainian" makes me angry)

[@salijayehinsen2892]

I have like 2 dozen of these eggs for my Christmas tree but mine are wooden

[@Ammon6]

Wow amazing

[@kathleenwilkins4294]

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

[@de0509]

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?

[@lauralane4808]

Traditionally they aren't emptied. They are lef to dry out . It takes a couple of year and you have to turn them once in a while but the inside eventually turn to dust.

[@alex-7777]

As long as you leave the egg in a cool place, it just mummifies and dries out over a couple years. It doesn't smell as long as the shell isn't broken. You can also blow the egg out, but I find blown eggs harder to work with

[@javelinnia3203]

Alright here are some things: of course, egg decoration is present in many other cultures, Slavic too. This specific method (Pysanky) can definitely be called Ukrainian, this is what people actually do here every year in many families, their ancestors did it for many generations, there are traces of in in Kievan Rus which is geographically a huge part of Ukraine. If you mention this tradition as part of your own country (not Ukraine), please include the source where we can read about it, and the name of the method (cause I want to know more about you, and explore the differences in our cultural aesthetics, ornaments, etc), let's educate each other.

[@slavicasam1307]

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

[@nunyabiznes33]

Traditionally, how do they remove the wax? Dunk it into hot water?

[@heidigresh2743]

Flame from a candle…

[@alex-7777]

Traditionally it's a flame from a candle, but you have to be careful not to get soot on the egg then. I find a hairdryer is easier

[@nunyabiznes33]

@@alex-7777 oh yeah, that's tricky to use.

[@cauliflower9967]

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

[@cosmiceye9357]

They poke a hole at the bottom of an egg and empty them out.

[@alex-7777]

This artist emptied the eggs beforehand. You can tell since they float in the dye. You can also just leave the eggs in a cool place and they'll dry out naturally. As long as the shells don't break, there's no smell

[@sweetypsycho4895]

"Pysanky egg" 🤣

[@naoko8341]

Good. Fractal Art. 0:20 👌. 💯.

[@dantecalderon6410]

GUT MORGEN SHAVUA TOV IM ALMOST DONE PAINTING MINE 💗

[@plotoyadnaya_rossiyanka]

That’s a Slavic tradition (and not only Slavic), not exclusively Ukrainian, and it definitely wasn’t “adopted” from Ukraine, since at the time this tradition has appeared Slavic nations were not fully formed. Couldn’t care less, but I hate when people manipulate the information to meet their needs. I checked out Wikipedia page edits and the guy who was writing it also purposefully deleted information about Russian писанки (Russians make it as well, it’s a really old tradition which most of the Slavs share since they were pagans) and added word “Ukrainian” literally everywhere. It’s disgusting to manipulate information that way, and depriving people of their own culture is bad no matter what their government is doing (I’m against the war, but it can’t justify things like this). It’s actually scary how easy it is to fake, alter and delete information these days. Always check what you believe in, my guys.

[@theheyheygirl7791]

Yes, but unfortunately people now only want this. It's easy to use the "this is good and this is bad" dichotomy instead of actually thinking. Even when the facts are historically incorrect. Makes me laugh kinda when people say that, especially nowadays.

[@javelinnia3203]

Well saying that Russians originate from slavs is questionable, you see, they are mostly finno-ugric. Nothing wrong with that, the same as Finnish and Estonian for example. Nowadays Ukrainians actually do that as part of their annual routine, while in Russia it is not present as a tradition anymore.

[@theheyheygirl7791]

@@javelinnia3203 im Northern Russian and we've been doing this every year and so does everyone i know from all parts of the country 😭😭😭 but we typically use onion husks to color the eggs naturally because it's easier to procure in the north than other materials. We're connected by this heritage, im just trying to enjoy and celebrate what's left of it. Much love to you.

[@plotoyadnaya_rossiyanka]

@@javelinnia3203 uhhh, and where are the proofs that ethnic Russians have finno-ugric and not slavic ancestry? Idk who told you this bs, but there is a ton of researches which prove that Russians are slavic. Anyway, as someone who lives there I can assure you that we have this tradition as well, so I also have no idea where did you get this information from.

[@pamparam__6181]

Oohhh the technique nearly same like how Batik was Made.

[@cristinadetwiler4036]

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

[@nunyabiznes33]

The tool looks like the one they use for batik.

[@Jazzatic2011]

0:39 seems like a hollowed egg. Can someone explain why you might not drain the egg until later?

[@jelenad6367]

Cleaner this way

[@CrazyBeyfulSarah]

Tattoo art form for a egg or like henna:D

[@Surai00]

Father, I crave EGG!

[@cristinadetwiler4036]

Nevermind, I found the link to her website!

[@clip012]

Looks like batik to me. Drawing using wax, color it, then get rid of wax.

[@transferramleela0906]

Very beautiful design 👍🙏

[@bra7283]

I loved these when I was a kid at Easter time.

[@PavelTeodor11530]

These techniq, is a Romanian one!

[@user-hgkv65454s]

Not only Romanian, painting pysankas is an old Ukrainian tradition too

[@thealaris]

It's a common practice in the central Europe to paint on the eggs, but exactly this one comes from Ukrainian and Poland territories about from 2/3rd BC