Like the early bird songs and flowering trees, decorating Easter eggs is a rite of spring. Every year, we flex our creative ...

1 of 7 — Ukrainians have been crafting pysanky, elaborately decorated eggs, for thousands of years. "There's an ancient legend that as long as pysanky are made, evil will not prevail in the world," ...

A local artist specializes in Pysanky or Ukrainian Easter Eggs, which are an an ancient wax resist art form. The process uses beeswax and traditional dyes layered on real egg shells to create ...

At Crisp Museum, a pysanky egg-decorating workshop taught Ukrainian wax-resist techniques, sharing the art form’s symbolism ...

Since pagan times, elaborately colored eggs were given to family and friends with the coming of spring, to shake off the shackles of winter and to wish good fortune or a good harvest or to ward off ...

It all starts with the egg. In spring, chickens start laying again, bringing a welcome source of protein at winter's end. So it's no surprise that cultures around the world celebrate spring by ...

The ancient art of pysanky, a Ukrainian egg-decorating technique, is gaining popularity in the modern world. I first learned the skill of applying wax to a hollowed eggshell at my grandmother’s ...

Staff photo / R. Michael Semple Honing her craft for 60 years Carol Novosel of Masury writes on a fresh egg using a kistka to create her design. Pysanka is the term used for an egg that has been ...

You can see Sherry Wilson’s work at Ink to Media, 523 N. Pines Road. For more information, call (509) 863-9125. “Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others.

Famous Ukrainian Easter egg artist Galina Ivanets paints her creation with a writing pin in her workshop in Kiev, Ukraine. "Pysankarstvo" — the art of painting Easter eggs — has enjoyed a renaissance ...