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Slavic pysanka. DIY Easter egg painting: a master class for activities with children Patterns for eggs with acrylic paints

Master class on painting a wooden egg.

This master class is designed for preschool children, primary school students, teachers and parents.

Master class: Crafting a “Chicken” egg for Easter.

Target: Painting a wooden egg “Chicken”.

Tasks:

Getting to know the traditions of celebrating Easter;

Development of creative abilities.

Materials.

To paint an Easter egg we will need the following materials:

1. Paints (gouache or acrylic)

2. Wooden egg

3. Brushes (column or squirrel)

4. Simple pencil

5. Furniture varnish (colorless)

6. Bristle brush (for varnish)

7. Palette

8. Glass (for water)

9. Cloth or paper napkins (for brushes)

10. Sandpaper

11. Newspaper

12. Sheet of paper (for sketch)

Progress:

A traditional gift for Easter is an Easter egg. Instead of ordinary chicken eggs, you can give a wooden one, painted with your own hands.

I invite you to watch a master class on painting a wooden egg for Easter.

Oh, so fluffy

Little yellow lump

Cute and furry,

And a little funny.

Runs after mom

Also a child

Rakes with his paw

grains(Chick)

Before you start painting a wooden egg, you need to prepare it for work. First of all, sand the egg so that it is smooth, then the paint will be easy to apply and in the end, when the product is varnished, it will be smooth and shiny.

Draw a sketch of the drawing with a pencil.

Let's create the image of a small, yellow chicken, with big eyes, a red comb and lace wings, which will hold a bouquet of the first light blue, white and dark blue flowers to bloom.

The egg needs to be tinted in a light yellow color (prepare acrylic with the consistency of liquid sour cream on a palette, mix yellow paint with white paint on the palette, apply the resulting color to a wooden egg).

When the paint has dried a little, start creating the image of the chicken.

Using a simple pencil, we outline the main details of the chicken: beak, eyes, comb, wings, etc.).

Take a brush and paint the eyes with white paint.

The next stage, while our eyes are drying, take orange or red paint and paint the beak, comb, beard, outline the wings, tail. We add small details: freckles and draw paws, we will show that our chicken is fluffy (a droplet stroke). Before making a dab on the work surface, practice on paper.

Using a thin and long brush, using acrylic paint (or black gouache), outline the eyes and draw eyelashes. Draw spirals and droplets on the wings. Decorate the ponytail with droplets and dots.

We draw flowers with dots and draw leaves.

When the paint is completely dry, cover the entire surface with a thin layer of colorless varnish (PF or NC) with a brush or by dipping.

Thus, the painted Easter egg will become brighter and the design will retain its original appearance for a long time.

This craft can decorate your home or become a gift for loved ones. Making an Easter souvenir will bring a lot of joy to you and your children.

Small chicken -

Like a dandelion ball

The same yellow, tender,

Soft and fluffy.

And I want to stroke

And I want to touch

A piece of sun

Preparation for the bright holiday of the Resurrection of Christ is a special process. The key place in it is occupied by coloring and decorating eggs. It doesn’t matter at all if you don’t master the art of drawing, because there is a more interesting and relaxing technique.

Drapankas, or scratches, are made by scratching a pattern onto the painted surface of an egg. The drawing is applied with a pencil and then scratched with a thin metal object (needle, knife, nail). The main condition is that the background must be one color.

When making drapanki, craftswomen can give free rein to their imagination, and looking at their work, it is impossible not to admire these works of art. Editorial "So simple!" I have prepared 15 ideas for your inspiration.

Easter egg painting

The simplest patterns look very interesting. As you can see, you don't have to have artistic talent.
Very beautiful patterns. It’s a shame to even break such eggs.
Very painstaking work, but what a result. Amazing!
Color eggs in different colors. This way, even the same patterns will look different.
Flowers are the best spring pattern.
Patterns in the form of birds look very symbolic. Interesting idea.
At first glance, there are a lot of elements, but in fact they are all simple to implement.
The same pattern drawn with paints would not look very attractive, but scratched out it immediately attracts attention.
If you are an artist at heart, you can easily turn Easter eggs into a work of art.
How much soul is invested!
Here is another simple pattern that will serve as an excellent decoration for your eggs.
Every touch is thought out.
Even a child can handle such simple patterns.
It's hard to believe that this is not drawn, but scratched.
I can already see how beautiful these scratches will look in a basket.

If you want to leave your creation as a souvenir, then do not boil the eggs, and after the work is finished, make small holes in them. Using a syringe, inject air into one hole. Thus, the white and yolk will flow out through the second.

From time immemorial, the painted egg, being the main attribute of Easter, has been considered not only a symbol of faith, but also a souvenir that is usually presented as a gift to loved ones. On the eve of Easter, every believing family paints and decorates chicken eggs, and craftsmen make them from any available materials, creating small works of art. In England in the 17th-18th centuries, it was customary to cover souvenir Easter eggs with gold plating, and in Germany at the same time they were made of porcelain. In Rus', wood has always been considered the most accessible material, so it is not surprising that wooden Easter eggs have become part of our culture and history.

“Dream House” offers you to get acquainted with interesting ideas that will help you paint and decorate wooden eggs with your own hands, and also tell you some interesting history.

Wooden Easter eggs

Decorative wooden eggs for Easter: how it used to be

Several centuries ago, wooden eggs, decorated with intricate paintings, were considered masterpieces of lacquer miniatures. The craftsmen first gave the wood the desired shape, then carefully sanded it, applied a sketch, painted it with bright pigments, varnished it and dried the product in an oven. Most often, Christian symbols and faces of saints were applied to wooden eggs. However, these souvenirs were also often decorated with traditional patterns - Khokhloma painting, natural motifs, everyday scenes, etc. Today, antique Easter eggs made of wood can be seen in museums or their analogues can be bought in souvenir shops. But you can also make such an attractive and significant symbol of Christ’s Resurrection with your own hands.

Painting Easter eggs made of wood

Painting wooden eggs - from simple to complex

Making and painting a wooden egg is a very complex and lengthy process that requires certain skills and technical equipment. However, to make an Easter souvenir with your own hands, you don’t have to look for wood, saw it and sand it, because today you can buy wooden egg blanks in almost every craft store. The surface of these products is already prepared for painting, so you only need to select the appropriate paints and brushes that will allow you to bring any artistic ideas and fantasies to life.

Wooden egg blank

So, how to paint a wooden egg for Easter? To begin with, experts recommend deciding on a pattern and drawing its outline onto the surface of the product with a simple pencil. If you do not have outstanding artistic abilities, choose the simplest ornaments that do not contain small intricate details. For example, this could be the emblem of Christ's Resurrection, images of vegetation or abstract symbols. After drawing the sketch, cover the product with light paint of a translucent texture or tinted varnish. The marked outlines will protrude through the surface of the material, allowing you to carefully decorate the design. The image itself is best applied using bright acrylic paints, which dry quickly and hardly flow. If your painting contains small details, use a regular toothpick or a sharpened match to apply them, not a brush. The finished drawing should dry well, after which it can be coated with furniture varnish, which will form a glossy transparent coating on the surface of the product.

Painting wooden eggs photo

How to decorate a wooden Easter egg

There is another interesting way that will allow you to turn a wooden egg into your personal work of art. To do this, add a regular candle to the standard decoration materials, the wax of which you will need. Paint the surface of the wooden piece with light-colored paint, applying it in an even, thin layer. When the paint is completely dry, mark the outline of your future drawing. If you are not sure that you can accurately reproduce the outline, prepare a paper template in advance and simply trace it. Next, light the candle and tilt it over the drawing. You need to make sure that the dripping wax covers the borders of the pattern. But don't be upset if the wax goes beyond the contours, because... it can be easily cleaned with a toothpick. After that, take paint of a different tone and completely paint over the egg. When the paint dries, you can easily peel off the wax, which will result in a beautiful three-dimensional design appearing on the product.

Easter eggs made of wood photo

How to paint a wooden egg

If desired, the painting of a wooden egg can be supplemented with the help of other materials - beads, beads, foil particles, etc.

Beautiful decor of wooden eggs

How to decorate a wooden Easter egg

Ideas for decorating wooden eggs

Wooden eggs for Easter can be decorated not only with painting, but also in other ways. Here are some interesting ideas:

1. Decoupage

To make an Easter egg using the technique, select napkins for decoupage and cut out suitable fragments from them. Next, paint the workpiece in one tone and, without waiting for it to dry, glue the prepared drawings to its surface. To ensure that the drawings stick well and look like a real painting, cover the product with a clear varnish.

How to decorate a wooden egg with your own hands

How to decorate a wooden egg with your own hands photo

2. Decorative threads

Easter eggs wrapped in threads look very original and unusual. To create such a souvenir, insert a thin needle into the central upper part of the product and wind the thread around it. Next, the surface of the egg needs to be smeared with glue on which the thread will be laid. To make the souvenir look truly beautiful and neat, the thread should be laid in turns, leaving no free spaces. Having reached the middle, move the needle from one end to the other, continuing to decorate the product with thread. If desired, the surface of the finished Easter egg can be decorated with beads, beads or ribbons.

How to decorate a wooden egg with beads

3. Decoration with nail polish

Nail polish applies well to a wooden surface, so it can be used as a decoration for Easter eggs. Moreover, varnish brushes are very convenient for drawing patterns and ornaments. To make the design of a souvenir look truly expressive and bright, use varnishes of different textures - varnishes with glitter, mother-of-pearl, shimmer, craquelure effect, etc. This design can be complemented with rhinestones, miniature beads, shimmering sparkles, etc.

Easter eggs master class

Painting Easter eggs - eight simple ways - I present to your attention ideas for painting Easter eggs from craftswoman Alice Burke

Alice Burke is a freelance mixed media artist | She explores various new materials to use in her works, happily breaks the rules and breaks the patterns accepted in art | She draws inspiration from street art, graffiti, art history and fashion | You can often see her rummaging through a trash can in the hope of finding something unique that can later be used to create a work of art | On the eve of Easter, she took several photos of lessons on decorating Easter eggs

This is what she writes in the preface to her master class: “Who told you that in order to decorate eggs, you need to mess around with dirty hot dyes? It's not like that at all! Watch how I painted a dozen eggs using materials found in my immediate environment.”

Idea No. 1. Take the eggs and color them with bright acrylic paint or food coloring. Then take a stroke corrector pen and draw simple patterns across the entire surface of the shell.

Idea No. 2,3. Use cotton swabs and use them to apply different patterns.

For example, create a pattern like this by dipping a cotton swab into paint and applying thick or translucent strokes.

Or make polka dot eggs using cotton swabs as pokers to apply the design.

Idea No. 4. Bubble wrap is another great material for creating interesting surfaces.

Just take a small piece of this film and spread some paint on it, then roll the egg over it.

Voila, you have an interesting egg with speckles or polka dots.

Idea No. 5. Creating inscriptions with a black or colored marker directly on the shell is perhaps the most easily implemented idea for decorating any surface.

You can write anything from wise sayings and prayers to funny wishes and meaningless doodles.

Idea #6 Colored handwriting and scribbles applied with multi-colored markers or felt-tip pens can also create a very bright and unique pattern on the surface of an Easter souvenir.

Idea No. 7 Well, and finally, a simple gel pen, Alice claims that with the help of this simple tool you can uniquely paint Easter eggs.

Look at the very simple feathers drawn, and what a cute pattern it turned out to be.

DIY Easter eggs

Here another great idea from the same craftswoman. This master class shows an easy way to create unique and colorful Easter eggs - using watercolors. Keep in mind that the pattern applied with such paint is not waterproof and products painted using this technique easily lose the applied pattern at the slightest contact with water. But painting eggs with watercolors is such a fun activity for children that you shouldn’t pay attention to this drawback.

To paint eggs using this technique you will need:

watercolor paints,
brushes,
boiled eggs,
watercolor pencils.

Step 1. Wet the brush with water, dip it in watercolor paint and apply paint to the entire surface of the souvenir, do not try to achieve uniform coloring, just paint the entire shell.

Step 2. Without waiting for the shell to dry completely, apply bright color spots of the same shade as the background directly onto the damp surface.

Step 3. Take watercolor pencils. The craftswoman writes: If you have never used watercolor pencils (or water-soluble pencils), they are simply wonderful. They are similar to ordinary colored pencils, but after you finish your drawing, you can draw with a wet brush and the image will become blurry and have a special charm, you will achieve the same effect if you draw on a damp surface.

Step 4. Alice used her watercolor pencils and worked on a wet surface, this is how she talks about her feelings: “When you draw on a wet shell, you feel like the pencil literally melts and bright and at the same time soft lines of the details of the drawing are born under it. »

Step 5. Add colored doodles all over the surface and dampen them.

Step 6. Let the painted items dry.

Just admire how beautiful the result is; if you want to consolidate the result, after drying completely, spray the shell with hairspray, and then cover it with a thin layer of acrylic varnish.

Decorate your gifts with inspiration, give with pleasure!

Translation by Oksana Korshunova especially for the site: Good IDEA

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In addition to the traditional Easter cake, the symbols of the Easter table are, of course, eggs painted for the holiday. You can decorate Easter eggs in an original way using simple painting techniques that are accessible not only to adults, but also to children. We are happy to share the secrets of our craft with our readers.

In order to paint Easter eggs, it is not at all necessary to be a master of a brush. In addition to traditional painting with an artistic brush, there are simpler techniques, some of which do not require this tool at all. Let's look at the most popular of them.

Bonded painting

To paint Easter eggs using this technique you will need:

cotton swabs (pokes);
acrylic paints;
brushes;
sponge;
cotton pads;
sunflower oil or furniture varnish.

Progress:

1. Boil an egg hard-boiled, dry and cool it. If you want to make a real Easter souvenir, carefully remove the contents of the raw egg through small holes in the bottom and top and paint the dried shell.

2. Using a foam sponge, cover the entire surface of the egg with white acrylic paint. Dry for a few minutes. If the coating is not thick enough, apply another layer.

3. Start painting the Easter egg. We suggest you decorate the shell with bunches of rowan berries. Dip a poke (cotton swab) into red paint and, applying it with perpendicular movements to the shell, draw 10-15 large berries forming a bunch.

4. The second element of our Easter egg painting will be rowan leaves. First, using a cotton swab, draw lines with green paint - the bases of the leaves. To enliven the painting, apply a more saturated color stroke with a thin brush to each green line.

5. Yellow strokes made on the leaves with a thin brush will further enliven the painting and make it more voluminous.

6. Draw highlights on the berries and leaves by applying a few white strokes using a brush or cotton swab.

7. To create contrast, add a few black dots to the base of the berries.

8. After the painting on the Easter egg has dried, coat it with furniture varnish. A boiled egg can be treated with vegetable oil using a cotton pad to make it shine.

Easter egg painting with wax

Easter eggs painted with wax are called pysanky. This technique is traditionally popular in Ukraine and allows you to create both simple souvenirs and genuine artistic masterpieces.

To paint eggs using wax technique you will need:

a raw egg;
pisachok - a device for applying hot wax to the shell. You can make your own pisachok by twisting a small piece of foil into a funnel and securing it to a wooden stick. Wax is placed in foil, heated over a flame to a liquid state and applied to the shell through a hole in the funnel;
candle;
vinegar;
cotton pads.

Progress:

1. From a raw egg at room temperature (not cold!) Remove the contents through small holes at the bottom and top. Wipe the shell with a cotton pad soaked in vinegar.

2. Prepare egg dye - it can be natural or artificial dye.

4. Immerse the scribbler in the melted wax and heat the contents of the funnel over the flame again.

5. Apply the wax design by rotating the egg, but without moving the scribbler.

6. After the wax has hardened, dip the egg into the dye and let the paint dry.

7. While heating the wax painting over a candle flame, gradually remove the wax trace from the surface of the shell with a woolen cloth. The areas where the wax was applied will remain unpainted, and you will have a light design on a colored background.

Working with a pissy

The traditional color of Easter eggs is red

The Easter egg is a model of the world, so eggs are often painted with belts
(sky, earth and underworld) and draw animals and plants on them

The painting includes birds, flowers and patterns with waves.

Variety of colors and styles

This is what the Lusatian wax painting of Easter eggs looks like

Easter egg painting with engraving

Easter eggs painted using this original technique are called “shkryabanks”. To create a painting-engraving you will need:

chicken, duck or ostrich egg, cleared of contents;
a sharp and thin tool for engraving, for example, a stationery knife;
paint for Easter eggs.

Progress:

1. Dye the eggs in your chosen color using natural or artificial dye.

2. Dry the shell for 24 hours so that the dye hardens well.

3. Using a sharp tool, “scrape” the selected ornament onto the eggshell (you can use a stencil).

Modern scrap banks

Even a simple scraper can be performed masterfully

Ornaments for painting eggs

Browse our selection of Easter egg designs to see if one of them will inspire you to experiment.

A simple pattern for stanchion painting and painting with a traditional solstice

Traditional painting

Ornament "Intercessor"

By the way, you can decorate not only ordinary chicken eggs, but also wooden models - they definitely won’t crack, and a particularly beautiful design can be preserved for years.

If your family has a tradition of exchanging Easter gifts, make beaded Easter eggs.

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Bonded painting

To paint Easter eggs using this technique you will need:

cotton swabs (pokes);
acrylic paints;
brushes;
sponge;
cotton pads;
sunflower oil or furniture varnish.

Progress:

2. Using a foam sponge, cover the entire surface of the egg with white acrylic paint. Dry for a few minutes. If the coating is not thick enough, apply another layer.

5. Yellow strokes made on the leaves with a thin brush will further enliven the painting and make it more voluminous.

6. Draw highlights on the berries and leaves by applying a few white strokes using a brush or cotton swab.

7. To create contrast, add a few black dots to the base of the berries.

8. After the painting on the Easter egg has dried, coat it with furniture varnish. A boiled egg can be treated with vegetable oil using a cotton pad to make it shine.

Easter egg painting with wax

Easter eggs painted with wax are called pysanky. This technique is traditionally popular in Ukraine and allows you to create both simple souvenirs and genuine artistic masterpieces.

To paint eggs using wax technique you will need:

a raw egg;
pisachok - a device for applying hot wax to the shell. You can make your own pisachok by twisting a small piece of foil into a funnel and securing it to a wooden stick. Wax is placed in foil, heated over a flame to a liquid state and applied to the shell through a hole in the funnel;
candle;
vinegar;
cotton pads.

Progress:

1. From a raw egg at room temperature (not cold!) Remove the contents through small holes at the bottom and top. Wipe the shell with a cotton pad soaked in vinegar.

2. Prepare egg dye - it can be natural or artificial dye.

4. Immerse the scribbler in the melted wax and heat the contents of the funnel over the flame again.

5. Apply the wax design by rotating the egg, but without moving the scribbler.

6. After the wax has hardened, dip the egg into the dye and let the paint dry.

Working with a pissy

The traditional color of Easter eggs is red

The Easter egg is a model of the world, so eggs are often painted with belts
(sky, earth and underworld) and draw animals and plants on them

The painting includes birds, flowers and patterns with waves.

Variety of colors and styles

This is what the Lusatian wax painting of Easter eggs looks like

Easter egg painting with engraving

Easter eggs painted using this original technique are called “shkryabanks”. To create a painting-engraving you will need:

chicken, duck or ostrich egg, cleared of contents;
a sharp and thin tool for engraving, for example, a stationery knife;
paint for Easter eggs.

Progress:

1. Dye the eggs in your chosen color using natural or artificial dye.

2. Dry the shell for 24 hours so that the dye hardens well.

3. Using a sharp tool, “scrape” the selected ornament onto the eggshell (you can use a stencil).

Modern scrap banks

Even a simple scraper can be performed masterfully

Ornaments for painting eggs

Browse our selection of Easter egg designs to see if one of them will inspire you to experiment.

A simple pattern for stanchion painting and painting with a traditional solstice

Traditional painting

Ornament "Intercessor"

By the way, you can decorate not only ordinary chicken eggs, but also wooden models - they definitely won’t crack, and a particularly beautiful design can be preserved for years.

If your family has a tradition of exchanging Easter gifts, make beaded Easter eggs.