messed-up modern egg
Argh. My latest modern pysanky egg was going really well until I made the mistake of trying to apply one last color (red). Red wasn’t in the dying sequence that I was using (lime-green to turquoise to blue to black), so it was necessary to wash and gently scrub the areas where I wanted to put the red dye. Unfortunately, some of the dyed areas that appeared to be safely protected under a layer of wax, started coming off. They literally flaked off when I was scrubbing the egg with the plastic brush. This has never happened to me before. I think the cuticle of the egg was coming loose in those areas because the egg had been dyed several times. The egg probably would have been fine if I hadn’t scrubbed it. At least the basic design of the egg came out okay, even though it looks yucky in the flaked-off areas. I plan to make a similar version of this design on a larger goose egg.
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it’s too bad about the flaking, but I still think it looks great. Your design and color choices are wonderful, as always