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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using the heat of candles, students revealed the brilliant colors and designs of Easter eggs, decorated in the Ukrainian style, on Sunday under the instruction of Lisa Davey, a descendent of Ukrainian ...

For the members of the Houston Egg Art Guild, egg decorating is about much more than dunking hard-boiled chicken eggs into teacups of Paas dye. These creators transform hollow shells — anything from ...

Yakov Zargaryan's home, featuring his painted egg and art collection (all photos Samson Martirosyan/Hyperallergic) YEREVAN, Armenia — On Easter of 1963, Yakov ...

As Nancy Shute reported in 2012, Ukrainians have for centuries practiced an ancient form of art, drawing intricate patterns on eggs using a traditional method that involves a stylus and wax. It's ...

Even for locals, Los Angeles can often feel big and sprawling and lacking in nuance, a city whose close-knit neighborhoods offer nothing if not directly asked. But there is one artist, the enigmatic ...