#09 - I Don't Do Horses - (Tree of Life Designs, Element by Element) with Shannon Wallis - Tuesday July 21st - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Workshop Summary:

Love traditional pysanky but struggle with some of the elements? In this class we will learn tips & tricks for improving traditional design elements, culminating in an egg with a tree of life motif on the faces, and a perfectly measured band on the side. We will draw on paper initially, and then learn how to measure an egg to get an eggsacting border. This workshop is appropriate for all levels of pysankarstvo, although beginners eggspecially encouraged. 

In this hands-on class you will learn to:

* Measure an egg to get exacting vertical borders
* Draw more perfect wolves teeth, stars, meander lines, waves and netting
* Create birds, deer and horses that don't look like cockroaches
* Bonus content: how to draw a tryzub.

What’s Provided:

• step by step instructional handout, including photos of eggsamples

What to Bring:

• one egg pre-divided with basic 8 division
• favourite measuring paper (quilling paper, paper strips, highlighter strips or UE washi measuring tape)
  
• pencil & eraser

Workshop Fee: $40CAD per student plus $8 material fee. Please bring $48.00CAD or the equivalent in USD in cash in an envelope to Shannon at the start of class.

Maximum participants: 20.

About Shannon Wallis

Shannon is a former elementary school art and nursery school teacher and has been writing pysanky in Vermont since 1994 when she learned the technique from another art teacher. While Shannon has no Ukrainian or Eastern European ancestry, she has fallen in love with pysanky as an art form. Shannon finds both the traditional and modern designs enticing, especially when they involve geometry. Shannon teaches pysanky in her home studio, on Zoom, at most of the North American pysanky retreats, and is delighted to be teaching at the Ukrainian Eggcessories Retreat again. She is a juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen in mixed media, has her eggs in several galleries in the States and sells her pysanky and batik eggs online and at various craft shows and markets. Besides being an egg artist, Shannon is a wife and a mother of two young adults. www.shannonwallisdesigns.com