1. Pysanka Ukrainian Folk art

3. Pysanka (Ukrainian:Ukrainian писанка, plural: pysanky)

4. Pysaty The word comes from the verb pysaty, " to write"

5. In Pre-Christian times Ukrainians worshipped the: Sun god (Dazhboh)- Dazhboh loved birds !

6. Humans could not catch the birds, but they did manage to obtain the bird eggs

7. – the eggs were magical – a source of life

8. Superstitions Pysanky held powerful magic associated with it Protect families from evil spirits Protect home from catastrophe Cure diseases

9. the decorated pysanka: played an important role in Ukrainian rituals of the new religion.

10. Year 988 With the acceptance of Christianity in Ukrainian

11. Traditions Eggs are made during the last week of Lent, Holy Week in the Orthodox and Greek (Uniate) Catholic calendars. (Both faiths are represented in Ukraine)Uniate

12. Section 2

13. Traditional Way to make a Psysanka EggWax-resist (Batik) method

14. Wax-resist (Batik) method

15. How to make a traditional psysanka egg (Batik)

16. Wax-resist Pasanky are made using a wax resist (batik) method

17. Beeswax Beeswax was heated in a small bowl on the stove and then scooped into the stylus as needed. Beeswax

18. What’s beeswax? it all begins on a flower in a field. Bees collect nectar from flowers and bring it to the hive where it becomes either beeswax or honey.

19. WAX molten wax is applied to the white egg with a writing motion

20. any bit of shell covered with wax would be sealed, and remain white

21. Stylus

22. Stylus-pen Used to paint design onto egg piece of thin brass was wrapped around a needle, forming a hollow cone. attached to a small stick (willow was preferred)

23. Stylus pen Know as: America-Stylus pen Pysachok Pysak pysal'tse kystka (kistka),

24. Colors and dyes

25. dyes were prepared from dried plants, roots, bark, berries and insects (cochineal)cochinea

26. Yellow was obtained from the flowers of the woadwaxen woadwaxen gold from onion skins

27. Red extracted from logwood or cochineal logwood

28. Dye colors Green from the husks of sunflower seeds Violet berries and bark of the elderberry bush Black dye was made from walnut husks

29. The dye sequence -always light to dark.

30. yellow, and more wax applied, and then orange, red, purple, black.

31. Geometric Design pysanka designs are geometric figures The egg itself is most often divided by straight lines into squares, triangles and other shape These shapes are then filled with other forms and design

32. Section 3- Sculpture

33. Sculpture Sculpture is three- dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materialsthree- dimensional

34. Sculpture Materials may be worked by removal such as carving; or they may be assembledcarving

35. Artifacts from China date back as early as 10,000 BCE Artifacts

36. Central Asia Greco-Bactrian kingdom (250 BCE – 130 BCE) Greco-Bactrian kingdom

37. The first known sculptures are from the Indus Valley civilization (3300–1700 BC), IndiaIndus Valley civilization

38. In West Africa, the earliest known sculptures are from the Nok culture of Nigeria, which dates around 500 BC.

39. Egypt Block statue of Pa-Ankh-Ra, ship master, bearing a statue of Ptah. Late Period, ca. 650– 633 BC, Cabinet des Médailles. Block statuePtahLate Period

40. Mesoamerican sculpture of Mexico

41. North America In North America, wood was sculpted for totem poles, masks, utensils, War canoes totem polesWar canoes

42. Europe The earliest European sculpture to date portrays a female form, and has been estimated at dating from 35,000 years agoform

43. Modern Sculpture

44. Section 4 How to make your psysanka panoramic egg

45. Steps for your projects 1. wedge clay 2.shape clay into an egg shape 3. Recycle excess clay from area that you dug out to make –panoramic view

46. panoramic viewing leather hard stage (not hard/soft) carve or cut away the window to your egg- To create a panoramic viewing

47. You must include on your egg: Coils Slab Pinched Bas-relief

48. make mini sculptures for inside your egg

49. WAX-Resist using wax resist Paint on the design (anywhere where you want the color of the clay body to show) Do NOT get wax resist on your clothing it doesn’t come out!

50. Geometric shapes Using under glaze paint in the psysanka style

51. Write a complete sentence of your choice on your egg

52. Grading

53. 1. Does the egg stand up on it’s own? 2. Is it decorated in the psysanka style? 3. Is it panoramic? 4. Do you have sculptures in the panoramic scene? 5. Do you have a complete sentence written on the egg? 6. Did you add coil, pinched, slab and bas-relief?

54. Vocabulary

55. Vocabulary-you need to know Psysanka Leather hard Greenware Bas-relief Coil Slab Pinched Batik

56. vocabulary Panoramic Sculpture Folk art Wax resist Slip Score Bees wax Geometric