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Tell us a little about your hobby.   Each spring I enjoy creating Ukrainian Easter eggs, known as pysanky. This ...
Ukrainian pysanky are typically created using a wax-resist technique. With this method, wax is "written" in a decorative pattern on the surface of the egg, which is painted or dyed.
WILCOX — The Easter bunny may be jealous of Grace Adam. This spring, as she has done for years, Adam has turned raw eggs into pysanky, or colorful Ukrainian Easter eggs with intricate designs.
Easter egg master artists recommend preserving the traditions of their city or region, because decorated Easter eggs, or pysanky, are created differently in the separate regions of Ukraine.
Pysanky is an ancient Slavic tradition that ushers in spring with eggs colorfully dyed with a wax-resist technique and messages scribed in symbols that herald rebirth, the sun, good energy and a ...
Learn the ancient art of Ukrainian Easter Egg decorating-- a sacred and meditative practice. Pysanky, as these eggs are known in Ukrainian, are made using the wax-resist "batik" method, in which ...
The Erie area offers kids, and adults, numerous opportunities to hunt for eggs or eat breakfast with the Bunny in the weeks leading to Easter.
ELKHART — First Presbyterian Church will hold a Ukrainian Easter egg decoration workshop from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 16 at 200 E. Beardsley Ave. Known as pysanky, the technique uses raw eggs ...
The museum is hosting an exhibit of Brown’s Pysanky Eggs, “ Pysanky-An Ancient Tradition – A Gesture of Peace, a gallery talk and demonstration. The gallery talk will begin at 12:30.
She said while she learned pysanky as a child, what spurred her fixation was a story about the (at one time) "dying art" in a 1972 National Geographic magazine. "The art almost died out," she said.