I would like to show you some of my other activities, but there are too many of them for these pages, so I will confine myself to bragging about some of the Decorated Eggs that I have made.
This first one in my pride and joy. It is an ostrich egg coach pulled by four unicorns, the overall length is 60 centimeters,(24 inches).There is a clear cover that sits on the base (not shown). There is also a plaque with my name on the cover kindly supplied by Councilor Pam Parker.
Thanks Pam.
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Ostrich egg. This egg has a Golden Swan inside with a blue draped background. The egg is completely covered with pearls on the outside to give it a very elegant appearance. The wings of the swan are embeded with Australian Rock Crystals. |
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Blue Goose Egg Jewel Box This is the closed of version of the jewel box, as you can see, I put the the minimum of decoration on this egg, any more would have spoiled the elegance I was aiming for. |
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Blue Goose Egg Jewel Box The open version of the jewel box showing the matching blue velvet lining. This egg went all the way to Scotland as a present. |
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Goose Egg Jewel Box This jewel box is decorated with gold mesh is rounded panels. This is the back view of the egg to let you see that I have covered the hinges with parts of a set of earrings. If you click on the picture you will see a larger version with more details. Click on 'Back' near the top left of your browser to return to this page. See how good I am to you. |
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Goose Egg Jewel Box. This is the open view of the above jewel box. Note the way I have formed the silk lining of the lid into a scroll. I was actually trying to make it look like a rose. The inside of the botton is formed in the same way. |
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Ceramic Gold Egg. This is not a real egg, but I put it in for the ceramic hobbyists among you. I coated the greenware with 24 carat gold and fired it at a low heat, then I put it on the cute little egg stand shown. If you look closely at the enlarged version, you will see a reflection of me taking this photo. |
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Quail Eggs. This pendant and earring set were made from two sizes of quail eggs. I used gold nail enamel to paint the eggs because nail enamel is very hard and gives great strength to the eggs It is quite safe to cuddle your boy friend without fear of crushing these eggs. As a point of interest, I gave the eggs 12 coats of enamel before I was satisfied with them. |
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Ostrich Egg Queen Coach. This egg was immature when I received it, there was a soft area that was not suitable for working on, so I cut off the bad section and ended up with enough to make the coach you see here. I have four nice little horses to finish the job when I can find time to make the harness for them. Note: I have finished the horses now and will add the picture when I process it. |
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Double Egg Hanger. These are two duck eggs. I only show the top half of the hanger, otherwise the photo would take up too much space. This type of hanger is probably available from Egg Art suppliers, but I make my own from brazing rods available from good hardware stores. Take a look at the larger picture and you may get an idea how it is done. You can use anything for the base, I use imitation marble, but you can use wood. Just bore a little hole and stick the rod in with Araldite. |
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Egg Hanger Base. OK! I realise I was being mean, so I decided to show you a picture of the base of the above egg stand. I don't recall where I got this one as I have had it for a long while, however you could try Bunnings. The little gold piece where the rod joins the base is only a little quail egg stand, it makes for a better finish. |
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Goose Easter Egg This goose egg has a recess on the lid with a ceramic Easter Bunny sitting in it. There is a chocolate egg sitting on a cushion inside the egg. The cushion was made by my wife Gwen. |
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Quail Egg Easter Card This is a quail egg painted with several coats of nail varnish. I won't tell you how I made the card, because it is so simple I will leave you to figure it out for yourself. |
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Chicken Egg This is what happens to an ordinary chicken egg after I have it for breakfast. The little figurine is carved from wood by a Japanese artist. The outside of the egg is covered with gold glitter crystals |
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Santa Egg. This is a goose egg with an image of Santa Clause inside. The snow is cotton with glitter crystals sprinkled on. I painted the background scenery with acrylic paints. The insides of the doors are lined with multi-coloured glitter crystals. |
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Goose Egg Jewel Box I cut some petal shapes on the lid of this jewel box and placed a little golden rose in the center, the idea was to emulate a flower. The inside can be seen through the cut-outs. |
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This is the inside view of the jewel box I matched the lining colour to the outside of the egg. The inside of the lid is painted with Liquid Pearls acrylic paint, which is available at most ceramic supply outlets in a great variety of colours. |
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Sculpted Ostrich Egg. This is another one of my ostrich eggs, as you can see I have cut the egg leaving an oval space on back and front. This allowed me to do an oil painting on each of the two ovals The stand is made from some pieces of pine that I glued together, then turned them to shape with my home-made lathe. |
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Dolphin Ostrich Egg. This egg could just as easily have been used as a jewel box, however, it was specially made for a dolphin lover, the gold dolphin has four Australian rock-crystals inserted in the body, two on each side. I tried to emulate the waves of the ocean in the blue lining. |
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Green goose egg. 7/6/2005. After 20 months at Regal Waters, I have decided to get back into making some more eggs and this is number one. My hands are not so steady as they used to be, but that is because I am out of practice, not because I am getting older. That's my excuse anyway. |
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