A Hand Painted Art Nouveau Easter
These delicate and fragile Easter eggs have been painted completely by hand in Turkey in a beautiful Art Nouveau style, known as Arts and Crafts Movement or “Style Liberty” in the United Kingdom. The eggs all have a solid background over which a stylised pattern of flowers in a William Morris style has been painted. The decorated eggs are then covered in a varnish to protect the fragile hand painted surface. The eggs are all painted in Turkey by one family, and then shipped to Australia. The family also make stylish wooden spherical Christmas ornaments with similar Style Liberty design.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" on the 22nd of March is "eggs and reflections", as a tribute to Easter in the lead up to it. The day the theme was announced, I was out shopping and went to buy these eggs, which I will give as gifts this Easter and Christmas to a select group of special friends. It was wonderful to return home at the end of a pleasurable day of retail therapy, and a trip to the pictures, to read what the theme was. I immediately unwrapped them from their tissue paper and set them up on a large mirror I use for photography purposes. Each egg 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. I hope you like my choice of the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.
A Hand Painted Art Nouveau Easter
These delicate and fragile Easter eggs have been painted completely by hand in Turkey in a beautiful Art Nouveau style, known as Arts and Crafts Movement or “Style Liberty” in the United Kingdom. The eggs all have a solid background over which a stylised pattern of flowers in a William Morris style has been painted. The decorated eggs are then covered in a varnish to protect the fragile hand painted surface. The eggs are all painted in Turkey by one family, and then shipped to Australia. The family also make stylish wooden spherical Christmas ornaments with similar Style Liberty design.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" on the 22nd of March is "eggs and reflections", as a tribute to Easter in the lead up to it. The day the theme was announced, I was out shopping and went to buy these eggs, which I will give as gifts this Easter and Christmas to a select group of special friends. It was wonderful to return home at the end of a pleasurable day of retail therapy, and a trip to the pictures, to read what the theme was. I immediately unwrapped them from their tissue paper and set them up on a large mirror I use for photography purposes. Each egg 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. I hope you like my choice of the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.