1 of 7 — Ukrainians have been crafting pysanky, elaborately decorated eggs, for thousands of years. "There's an ancient legend that as long as pysanky are made, evil will not prevail in the world," ...

A local artist specializes in Pysanky or Ukrainian Easter Eggs, which are an an ancient wax resist art form. The process uses beeswax and traditional dyes layered on real egg shells to create ...

Since pagan times, elaborately colored eggs were given to family and friends with the coming of spring, to shake off the shackles of winter and to wish good fortune or a good harvest or to ward off ...

It all starts with the egg. In spring, chickens start laying again, bringing a welcome source of protein at winter's end. So it's no surprise that cultures around the world celebrate spring by ...

The ancient art of pysanky, a Ukrainian egg-decorating technique, is gaining popularity in the modern world. I first learned the skill of applying wax to a hollowed eggshell at my grandmother’s ...

Staff photo / R. Michael Semple Honing her craft for 60 years Carol Novosel of Masury writes on a fresh egg using a kistka to create her design. Pysanka is the term used for an egg that has been ...

When Phyllis Fitzpatrick was asked by the Baltimore Zoo to paint some animals on an unhatched ostrich egg a little more than 20 years ago as a gift for then-Gov. William Donald Schaefer, she thought ...

Feel like changing your Easter egg decorating routine? Try making a pysanka (or pysanky, plural), a Ukrainian egg created with a written-wax technique. Various legends and religious significance ...

It all starts with the egg. In spring, chickens start laying again, bringing a welcome source of protein at winter's end. So it's no surprise that cultures around the world celebrate spring by ...

Famous Ukrainian Easter egg artist Galina Ivanets paints her creation with a writing pin in her workshop in Kiev, Ukraine. "Pysankarstvo" — the art of painting Easter eggs — has enjoyed a renaissance ...