Learn How to Dye & Color Easter Eggs - Decorate Ukraine Ukrainian Pysanky Pysanka Intermediate Egg 

Most pencil marks can be removed with either lighter fluid or mineral spirits.

I wonder the same thing....is she using the toilet cleaner?

+Master Blackthorne Most artists plug the drain hole with melted wax, others use drain hole plugs. These plugs can be found at Wax Art Supply, or the Ukrainian Gift Shop. The melted wax plug works best for me. Many find the bought plugs can cause hair line cracks around the drain hole.

+Master Blackthorne If you aren't sure how to plug the drain hole with melted wax, please watch my basic video: Learn How to Dye and Color Easter Eggs. In this video I show how to plug the drain hole with the wax. Thank you for watching my videos.

Hello Helen, A few things you might try would be to soak the egg in vinegar to etch the shine off, or you can sand the egg again to get the shine off. Another thing is to join Incredible Eggs Pysanky and Batik group on Facebook. It's where you can find answers to just about anything to do with pysanky. And, thank you for watching my videos.

Hi Karen, I clean all my eggs as I have shown in my videos. I never just start work on an egg without making sure the egg is completely clean. Many folks use vinegar. others use dish soap, or a baking soda paste. I prefer to use The Works Toilet Bowl Cleaner, and in one of my videos (maybe in more than one video) I show how to use this product and for how long. This is not a method for everyone, but there are the others that I mentioned you can try. I try to encourage the artists to to try each and every method /technique or product, and find out what works for them best, and what works best for their eggs. About your oodles of eggs, you can give them away, sell them, or buy curio cabinets and have them on display. I have 5 curio cabinets in my small front room.

***** Again, thanks so much! I never thought to clean my eggs first. I saw you used the works on the ostrich egg and didn't realize it was for all eggs! i will try it! 5 curio cabinets!? I'd need a bigger house! HAHA! Thanks again!

***** As far as too many eggs, it is traditional to give eggs away as gifts. Darker colored eggs are for older people, lighter colors for younger folks whose life story is not written yet.

Sadly, it's terrible what they do to eggs these days; they are either badly handled or frozen and that effects the adherence of the the dyes. It's best to get your chicken eggs from a farm. If they are dirty (chicken poop) gently clean them with a weak solution of white vinegar and water. If laid that day, wait about three days before decorating.

On this egg I waxed and sealed all the white areas. When I removed the wax all the colors that were sealed in wax were then revealed.

I've never boiled the eggs for my artwork. I have used full/undrained eggs, but prefer to use drained eggs.

Oksana, thank you for watching my videos. You can get all the supplies, kistka, wax, dyes from Wax Art Supply.

Lorrie Popow thanks so much for the respond! If I use a pencil for drawing lines, those pencil lines stay even after I wipe off wax, so my lines not really white, they are grayish. How to erase those gray marks? Should I use a special type of pencil like? Or, is there any technique to get rid of those grayish lines?

Oksana Bundzyak I am having the opposite problem. I get one side finished and while I am doing the other side my lines rub off before I get done. Maybe we should trade pencils lol

Oksana Bundzyak For the videos I make my pencil markings dark so the camera can see the lines. But, hopefully I mentioned this in at least one of the videos to use a light pencil line. If you still end up with pencil marks on your egg after removing the wax you can use an artist type eraser .....I bought one of these white eraser from Hobby Lobby, it name is MOO professional eraser. You can use lighter fluid or Goof Off too. But, gently rub these on the pencil marks.

I place the egg into plastic ziplock bags filled with different color dyes to dye the egg at different stages. I show in the video these steps, and repeat many times that I am dyeing the egg. The first dye bath is mentioned around the 40:45 point. When dyeing the egg the artist decides how light or dark each color will be. So the timing for each dye color will depend on how well the dye takes on the egg and what shade the artist wants .Thank you for watching my video, and for your kind words..

+Chris Gust What a great way to start my day ,hearing from an old friend. Hi Diki, the egg is a smaller goose egg. If you're tempted to return to writing eggs, you might like to join a really great pysanky group on facebook, Incredible Eggs.

Mary Ellen thank you for watching my videos and for your kind words. Normally, we just layer the dye colors. However, you can always wash back/off the colors. If just using water or soap and water doesn't get the eggshell back to white, then you can etch it back to white. Etching can be done with vinegar, Acid Magic, or toilet bowl cleaner. There are other solutions, but at the moment I've forgotten the names. The important thing to remember is if you do wash back to always dip or apply vinegar to the eggshell before you dye the next color. If interested, I also have 4 books to explain and show different designs and techniques. Lulu, sells them.

mildyx The dyes are reused. Some dyes last for years others maybe a few months. Some dyes may need to be strained to get rid of unwanted particles. This can be done with a paper towel, coffee filter, or a knee high stocking. Some dyes need recharging. This is done with adding more vinegar, putting the dye in the microwave for a couple minutes, or both.

Thank you v much! I tried writting eggs for the first time this year and i really loved thought the method was a bit different from yours.I wish i have had seen your videos before i learned a lot! but i may try my hands again when i find some dyes.Thank you again for sharing your tehnique so generously!bests,ildi

mildyx Thank you very much for watching my videos, in the near future there will be more. You can get nice dyes from the Ukrainian Gift Show, Pysanky Showcase, or Wax Art Supply. Again, thank you.

I use the dyes for the season, keep them in the jar for the next year... so no, no fresh pack each time. next year , just add vinegar except for orange.

Thank you!! Undine Stephan.

Then pencil is a Pilot mechanic pencil. I'm glad you like the video thank you for your kind words and for watching my videos.

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I use most of the colors available. I show in my videos how I dye my eggs with aniline dyes.

ohhh ok. thank you so much for your response.