Ukrainian Easter Eggs

Last year, before Easter, I was shooting Ukrainian Easter Eggs painting in our church. One of our parishioners, Irina Duzha was providing instructions how to do it. The whole process is very unique. It requires a lot of patience and time. You have to paint one color at a time using bee wax to cover the color you want to keep. The amazing patterns make the painted eggs an art pieces.

I took the best images and made a big poster and put it in a church’s hall to show it to everyone who comes to our church. Last Sunday I was approached by a woman, Mary Vreeland, who’s writing an article for Highlights for Children magazine. She liked my pictures and was interested to use some of them in her article.

Here is the poster I made:

Ukrainian traditional Easter Eggs: