A Style Liberty Easter Egg
This delicate and fragile Easter egg has been painted completely by hand in a beautiful Art Nouveau style, known as Arts and Crafts Movement or “Style Liberty” in the United Kingdom. The egg has a background of rich cobalt blue which is decorated with a mixture of stylised white and blue flowers in a William Morris style and then overlaid with tiny gold flecks. The egg is then covered in a varnish to protect the fragile hand painted surface.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 31st of March is "a single egg". This egg, perched atop a small porcelain rest, has a small puncture at both the top and the bottom, indicating that it was “blown”, a tradition where one blows the white and yolk of the egg through the hole in the bottom by way of exhaling into the hole at the top. A time consuming method, egg blowing must be done gently so as not to break the fragile egg shell by applying too much pressure. It can take well over an hour to blow a single egg. The paper I have chosen for the background is William Morris’ 1875 “Marigold” pattern which I thought suited this Style Liberty Easter egg. I hope you like my choice of the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.
A Style Liberty Easter Egg
This delicate and fragile Easter egg has been painted completely by hand in a beautiful Art Nouveau style, known as Arts and Crafts Movement or “Style Liberty” in the United Kingdom. The egg has a background of rich cobalt blue which is decorated with a mixture of stylised white and blue flowers in a William Morris style and then overlaid with tiny gold flecks. The egg is then covered in a varnish to protect the fragile hand painted surface.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 31st of March is "a single egg". This egg, perched atop a small porcelain rest, has a small puncture at both the top and the bottom, indicating that it was “blown”, a tradition where one blows the white and yolk of the egg through the hole in the bottom by way of exhaling into the hole at the top. A time consuming method, egg blowing must be done gently so as not to break the fragile egg shell by applying too much pressure. It can take well over an hour to blow a single egg. The paper I have chosen for the background is William Morris’ 1875 “Marigold” pattern which I thought suited this Style Liberty Easter egg. I hope you like my choice of the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.