Painted Eggs

Painted eggs gives a wealth of instructions and ideas for painting and dyeing eggs. It takes you through all the stages of selecting and preparing the eggs, the materials and techniques used, to the final stages of arranging and storing a complete collection. The various methods for decorating the eggs, from simple pencil drawing to painting, engraving, etching and treating with wax for a batik effect are all described in full. The book is fully illustrated with colour photographs of supurb examples of all these techniques.