Egg Obsession

Even more egg pictures

I am having so much fun doing these

And as I only have one hot plate

And I need to be dyeing at the moment

Instead of playing with wax

These little babies keep me amused.

And these are just the dry ones!!!!!

I have done a few small ones

which are still wetI will matte them up

and sell them

These will probably end up as bookcovers

More Egg Related Business

Playing some more with the egg. Here I have applied the egg yolk to a lino print, the yellow one a stamped the block onto the fabric the dark one I put the block on the table and applied the cloth to the block. I allowed the egg to dry and then put them into two different dye pots. I like what happened.

This is a closer shot.

This a small concertina book I placed leaves inside and held it closed with fold back clamps and then dyed.

A little tiny book

The egg paper now a wax covered book cover

Hand made paper on the inside.

So that is what I have been up to in the studio.

Egg on paper and wax fun

These are a couple of the pages of watercolour paper that I use to brush the egg onto my leaves as you can see when popped into the dye pot they come up beautifully. After a good drying and a few days of curing I have now covered them in hot wax and used them as book covers which have waxwd handmade pages.

And this is a first wax piece exploring excavation. The toxic yellow is an example of why not to use zinc white in this instance.

And this is the end result with just a little yellow now covered with titanium white.

A little display

and this one has excavation on one side a strip of handmade paper down the centre and some nice scratching on the right.

I am having so much fun with the online wax class with Judy Wise, there is a link on my sidebar for anyone wanting to check it out.

x te