UKRAINIAN PYSANKY CLASSES & KITS
1. We will prepare and gather together all the things needed for making our Pysanka.
If you purchased a kit, you will assemble the kit and additional items needed.
2. Learn why we use beeswax and how to prepare and apply it safely to your egg.
3. Learn how to wash, clean and prepare the eggs. Drawing your design, Then lightly pencil draw your design.
4. Heating your kitska over a candle to gently warm the beeswax then draw your design
5. Wax the parts of the design that should retain the dye color you just used.
6. Everyone will decorate the Pysanka step-by-step with all the materials in their kit, together in-person or via Zoom
7. Dipping the egg in the next darker color and pat dry. Waxing remaining areas as needed. Repeat until you dye the final color
8 Once all the waxing and dyeing is done, we'll melt the wax off the pysanka to reveal the finished design.
9. Varnishing your the egg and allowing them to dry completely