Saturday 25 March 2023

She’s getting eggy….

I made a special trip to town to find the tiny hook things so that I could screw them into the wooden eggs. They would be easier to paint with a little something to hold, and of course, they are destined to hang on a lovely twiggy cutting or, more likely after this week’s weather, a windfall branch! So then I was ready and had no reason not to set to and paint the eggs. Ten eggs, two shades of five colours. Add contrasting detail in the form of dots and stripes and what-not. 

It quickly became obvious that this was going to be a more than one coat job, I don’t know if the acrylic paints (which are new) are just lacking opacity or if they were too cheap to be any good. I thought they were reasonably priced rather than cheap, but neither are they Windsor & Newton! While I was coming to terms with the need to sand and re-coat, I pressed on, and by the eighth egg, had decided that these damn things aren’t actually egg shaped. They’re just ovals. And they’re much bigger than I thought, too. 

See what I mean? I wasn’t quite sure quite how big they are in terms of display and well, taste. I know, that sounds daft, but who wants to have to use an actual bough to give a handful of wooden eggs the right perspective for an Easter table display? Yeah, now you get it. I did some very technical research. A real egg for control and a creme egg for back-up:
I was right. The wooden eggs are just ovals. And they’ll be definitively too big for a sweet twig of catkins in a jar that was to form part of my *cough* Easter display. The real egg is a large, free range, so there’s a little more perspective on the size of the wooden ovaloid. Both make the creme egg look positively sad though don’t they? Creme eggs are, I have discovered, a bit like marmite. You love ‘em, or hate ‘em. Don’t worry, there are takers for both types of egg in this house, this technical comparison was created from erm, goods in stock. 

Now, to finish the painting. Unscrew the hangy bits and just toss the lot into a glass bowl, that’ll do till I can find some daintier, less clumpy actual egg shaped eggs to decorate! Easter 2024 at this rate.

6 comments:

Helen said...

I agree, they aren't very egg shaped! I do like your control mechanism though! even the Creme egg isn't very egg shaped! I think a bowlful of your painted eggs (ovals) will look great though. I am sure there are branches a-plenty all over the place...

Kyla said...

Yep agree not really egg shaped but impressed by your resilience to continue

Lindart said...

I think a bowl of eggs would be lovely! BTW, the shape of the eggs you have are ellipsoids (both ends the same), and an actual egg shape is called an ovoid (one end larger than the other), as both are 3D shapes. An oval is a flat shape. Regardless of what they are called, have fun decorating! Lindart

Kelly said...

LOL.. Hey color in any shape or form is pretty. I think tossing them into a bowl is a quite lovely idea.

Now you have me wanting to by paper mache eggs to decorate for next year. I do have some plastic ones I bought eons ago to paste torn bits of tissue paper onto or to use the oxide inks (I saw Tim do this one, that's why I bought the eggs! LOL) They're still waiting to be turned into something festive. Hugs & Creative Blessings, Kelly

Neet said...

Hope you find some in time - what about polystyrene? I am sure I have seen some at The Range, Hobbycraft or maybe The Works. The latter will be the cheapest.
Good luck
Hugs, Neet xx

Susan Renshaw said...

I am sure creme eggs have got smaller. They rattle about in the knitted chicks my mother-in-law made years ago...