Video: Eggshell Paintings
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Eggs are a very healthy product, but the shells are usually sent to the trash bin, because they are not worthy of use. But creative people differ from everyone else in that they can make a small masterpiece from the most inappropriate material. We have already written about lace eggs from Gary LeMaster, and today we will tell you about another craftswoman who creates bright delightful pictures from the shell.
The girl-craftswoman's name is Lyuba, she is from Moscow and, perhaps, this is all the information that can be found about a person on the Internet. But Love tells a lot about her work and with pleasure. The girl is engaged in drawing, graphics, embroidery, interior decoration, creating leather accessories and, of course, laying out mosaic paintings from eggshells. With all the variety of creative activities, the craftswoman admits that her artistic taste is from nature, but she has no special education.
Let's talk a little about the process of creating paintings from eggshells. The shell must be taken exclusively from under raw eggs, and it is imperative to free it from the film. Then it must be dyed, for which Lyuba takes fabric dyes. After the preparatory steps, the creation of the drawing begins. On cardboard covered with black lacquer, the artist applies the contours of the future image with a golden gel pen. Then, using tweezers, the shell is broken into pieces of the desired shape, which are then laid like a mosaic. The final result is covered with a colorless varnish. The size of the works is about 30x40 cm.
As you can see from the description, everyone can create such a picture. Only Love warns that this work is painstaking and requires patience and perseverance. If this does not scare you, try creating your own mosaic or involving children in this activity. And ideas for paintings can be spied on Lyuba's website.
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